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ACQUISITION AND CROSS MODAL GENERALIZATION OF RECEPTIVE AND EXPRESSIVE SIGNING SKILLS IN A RETARDED DEAF GIRL
Author(s) -
SMEETS P. M.,
STRIEFEL S.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1976.tb00951.x
Subject(s) - psychology , modalities , modality (human–computer interaction) , girl , generalization , audiology , stimulus (psychology) , receptive language , cognitive psychology , communication , developmental psychology , linguistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , medicine , mathematics , mathematical analysis , social science , philosophy , sociology , vocabulary
A transfer of stimulus control procedure was used to teach a retarded deaf girl manual signing skills. Eight manual signs were trained in the receptive modality; eight others in the expressive modality. Acquisition of receptive and expressive signing skills occurred for most signs after they had been trained in multiple baseline order. There was a marked difference in cross modal generalisation between each of the trained signing modalities. With some exception training of receptive sign discrimination had little effect on the expressive usage of these signs. In contrast, training in the expressive usage resulted in a near perfect acquisition of receptive sign discrimination.