Acquisition of lipreading in a deaf multihandicapped child.
Operant techniques were used to develop lipreading in a nine-year-old deaf boy who had failed to respond appropriately to previous speechreading training. Remediation was initiated with two experiments: the first entailed a reversal and the second a multiple baseline. A component analysis revealed that both tokens and social reinforcers presented simultaneously or separately were effective in shaping lipreading. In addition, the child learned to lip-read either voiced or nonvoiced names of objects.
D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D003638:Deafness / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004519:Education, Special; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan; D012056:Reinforcement, Social; D014040:Token Economy