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Peer‐tutoring of manual signs by adults with mental handicaps
Author(s) -
Hooper Helen,
Bowler Dermot M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
mental handicap research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 0952-9608
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3148.1991.tb00100.x
Subject(s) - psychology , intervention (counseling) , peer tutor , naturalistic observation , developmental psychology , medical education , clinical psychology , mathematics education , psychiatry , social psychology , medicine
A group of eight adults with moderate to mild mental handicaps (tutors) were taught ways of promoting communication in eleven of their less able peers (students). They encouraged the students to communicate by means of combined signed and spoken utterances in naturalistic settings. As well as showing significant increases in their pre‐ and post‐intervention vocabularies, the students showed significant increases in the extent to which they responded to tutors' interactions with them.