scholarly journals Effectiveness of Storytelling on the Components of Communication Skills in Educable Mentally-retarded Children

Author(s):  
Marzieh Mashalpourfard
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn S. Bliss ◽  
Doris V. Allen ◽  
Georgia Walker

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.


1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 1013-1014
Author(s):  
Joe M. Blackbourn

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.


1974 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 977-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Montague ◽  
Bob N. Cage

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.


1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank B. Wilson

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.


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