First Advisor

Joan McMahon

Term of Graduation

Spring 1978

Date of Publication

5-2-1978

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.) in Speech Communication: Speech and Hearing Sciences

Department

Speech Communication

Language

English

Subjects

Children -- Language, Children with mental disabilities -- Language, Short-term memory

DOI

10.15760/etd.2770

Physical Description

1 online resource (3, v, 72 pages)

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the presence or absence of a phonological recoding strategy in the mentally retarded population by using a memory matching exercise with visual stimuli. Pictures of common objects were divided into eight pictures with names that sound alike (homophonous) and eight with names that do not sound alike (non-homophonous). The null hypothesis tested was:

No statistically significant difference will be found between mentally retarded and normal subjects in the development and use of a phonological recoding strategy for a short-term memory task, when the subjects are matched for receptive vocabulary age.

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