Language is essential to pass on complex concepts and allows the human being to communicate. In Behavior Analysis, the term verbal behavior has been used instead of language because it suggests its environmental ...

Aquatic therapy is a method of prevention and rehabilitation of handicap. Its specialized learning methods enables motor training and independence in the fluid environment and, therefore, provides a better life quality ...

The debates on the production and dissemination of the knowledge in Special Education, produced essentially in the Graduate Programe in Education, Special Education and Psychology in Brazil, are increasing and, in general ...

The objectives of this work were to analyze the language development of deaf children using a cochlear implant (CI) through a longitudinal study using the Reynell Developmental Language Scales (RDLS), to compare the ...

Changes in society bring a new way of familiar organization and a new look at the participation of the man in this context. Although the father s importance has been recognized, on Brazil, there are few studies which aim ...

People with autism display a number of marked deficits in communication, symbolic or imaginative activities, reciprocal social interaction and the presence of a pattern of restrict behavior. Follow-up studies indicate that ...

Considering the highest increasing of the elderly population in our country and simultaneously the increasing of morbidity rate of chronic-degenerative disease, in general, there are people seeking to be in attendance, at ...

The objective of this paper was to identify and analyze the communicative attitudes between a mother and her deafblind adolescent daughter, and also to contribute and promote the development of significant communication ...

Choice making is a fundamental skill for all individuals. Choice opportunities are related with important questions of human development, and of paramount importance to the development of clinical and educational programs ...

The current study had the purpose of analyzing the acquisition of selection-based tacts through conditional discriminations and the emergence of these signs as topography-based tact and as mand by four mentally retarded, ...