Tantrums: remediation through communication.
There is a high correlation between behaviour problems, and lack of receptive and expressive language communication. Multiply handicapped children, with varying degrees of physical, mental, emotional, and sensory handicaps, in addition to a communication deficit, can learn a sign language system. Progress in communication through the sign language also results in substantial emotional and behavioural improvements. This paper presents two case studies of such children, and describes in detail the 7 year programme used to develop language through the Paget-Gorman sign system, with a profoundly deaf, subnormal, athetoid, disturbed boy.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003142:Communication; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012813:Sign Language