Peer‐tutoring of manual signs by adults with mental handicaps

In: Mental handicap research, Volume 4, Issue 2, p. 207-215

Abstract

ABSTRACTA group of eight adults with moderate to mild mental handicaps (tutors) were taught ways of promoting communication in eleven of their less able peers (students). They encouraged the students to communicate by means of combined signed and spoken utterances in naturalistic settings. As well as showing significant increases in their pre‐ and post‐intervention vocabularies, the students showed significant increases in the extent to which they responded to tutors' interactions with them.