Use of a Progressive Time Delay Procedure To Teach Receptive Vocabulary

Progressive time delay is presented as a nonintrusive method of teaching receptive vocabulary to a 5-year-old girl with severe mental retardation. The girl was trained in pointing to photographs of various unfamiliar objects when the object was named by the teacher. Results indicate that the present...

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Main Author Morgan, Robert L
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 1987
Subjects
Identification
Instructional Effectiveness
Preschool Education
Progressive Time Delay
Receptive Language
Recognition (Psychology)
Severe Mental Retardation
Student Reaction
Teaching Methods
Time Delay
Time Factors (Learning)
Vocabulary Development
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Summary:Progressive time delay is presented as a nonintrusive method of teaching receptive vocabulary to a 5-year-old girl with severe mental retardation. The girl was trained in pointing to photographs of various unfamiliar objects when the object was named by the teacher. Results indicate that the presentation of a time delay procedure resulted in a variable, accelerating trend in the percentage of pictures correctly identified. The procedure was effective in increasing the percentage of receptive vocabulary words recognized by the subject and, in addition, the subject consistently verbally identified pictures once she identified them receptively. (Contains 34 references.) (JDD)