title: Free recall of lists of word and sign labels by severely handicapped children.
abstract: Two experiments are reported which tested short-term recall of lists of four sign or four word labels by severely handicapped children. The findings suggest that the subjects were more efficient at processing words than signs in short-term memory, and that their organization of sign and word lists were affected by the length of time the material had to be held in short-term store. Both of these effects were influenced by whether or not the subjects had to use the stimuli as labels when making a response.
authors.affiliation: University of London Institute of Education, England.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Bowler
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kiernan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D008369:Manual Communication; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012691:Serial Learning; D012813:Sign Language