A Comparison of the Results of a Revised Version of Berko’s Test of Morphology with the Free Speech of Mentally Retarded Children

1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Dever
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
School Children ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Correlational Analysis ◽  
Mental Age ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Educable Mentally Retarded ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
Nonsense Syllables

A revised version of Berko’s test of morphology was presented to 30 educable mentally retarded public school children, six each from the Mental Age (MA) groups 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Samples of free speech were also elicited from these children. The features tested were compared to the same features in the free speech to see if the test could predict the occurrence or the nonoccurrence of errors in the free speech. Correlational analysis suggested that this was not the case. The conclusion was drawn that the paradigm itself, whether it used nonsense syllables or real words as eliciting stimuli, was not useful in testing development of bound morphemes in educable mentally retarded children.

An Investigation of the Family Backgrounds of Educable Mentally Retarded Children in Special Classes

1964 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Wakefield
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
General Population ◽  
School Children ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Housing ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Educable Mentally Retarded

This investigation was undertaken to assess four critical family background factors of educable mentally retarded public school children. Parents of these children were found to be significantly lower than the general population in intelligence, level of schooling, family income, and cost of family housing.

Self-Concepts of Institutional and Non-Institutional Educable Mentally Retarded Children

1974 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 977-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Montague ◽  
Bob N. Cage
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Public School ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Educable Mentally Retarded

20 public school special education and 20 institutionalized educable mentally retarded children were compared on an experimental I Feel—Me Feel self-perception scale. No significant differences in self-concept were found between the institutional and non-institutional groups or between sexes. All children had generally good self-concepts.

Efficacy of Speech Therapy with Educable Mentally Retarded Children

1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank B. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Speech Therapy ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Error Reduction ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Mental Age ◽  
Phase Study ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Educable Mentally Retarded ◽  
And Control

A two-phase study was conducted to evaluate the articulatory abilities of 777 educable mentally retarded children between the ages of 6 to 16 years in a public school setting. In Phase I, an analysis of articulation acquisition by mental age was computed. The children were then divided into speech-deviant and normal groups, and the articulatory skills of the speech deviant group were analyzed. Substitution and omission errors tended to decrease with increasing mental age, but distortion errors increased. Phase II was an attempt to evaluate the effect of articulation therapy on sound error reduction over a three-year period. The speech-deviant group was subdivided into three groups: Experimental, Placebo, and Control. Differences in sound error reduction among the three groups were not significant.

Sentence Structures of Trainable and Educable Mentally Retarded Subjects

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn S. Bliss ◽  
Doris V. Allen ◽  
Georgia Walker
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Linguistic Processing ◽  
Completion Task ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Educable Mentally Retarded ◽  
Story Completion ◽  
Grammatical Structures ◽  
Trainable Mentally Retarded

Educable and trainable mentally retarded children were administered a story completion task that elicits 14 grammatical structures. There were more correct responses from educable than from trainable mentally retarded children. Both groups found imperatives easiest, and future, embedded, and double-adjectival structures most difficult. The children classed as educable produced more correct responses than those termed trainable for declarative, question, and single-adjectival structures. The cognitive and linguistic processing of both groups is discussed as are the implications for language remediation.

Varying Preschool Arrangements and Self-Concepts of Educable Mentally Retarded Children in Grade 1

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 1013-1014
Author(s):  
Joe M. Blackbourn
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Preschool Experience ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Educable Mentally Retarded

Differences in measured self-concept among educable mentally retarded children in Grade 1 were examined. Subjects included 90 children randomly selected from larger populations with varying preschool experiences. An initial positive influence of preschool experience on self-concept in Grade 1 appeared to be more pronounced among those subjects exposed to nonhandicapped peers.

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