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Journal on Developmental Disabilities
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| Volume 10, No. 1 | other issues |
Predictive Validity of Auditory Discriminations in
Persons with Intellectual Disabilities:
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Editors / Review Board / Authors this Issue Articles / Abstracts Auditory Discriminations and the ABLA Test Maltreatment and Life Stressors in Single Mothers Depression, Temperament, in Children with Asperger’s Syndrome Successful Aging of Women with Intellectual Disabilities Service for Children and Youth Aggression: Symptom of Mood Destabilization Integration in Social Activities Hearing Impairment in Adults with PDD Parental Stress and Adaptive Functioning Stimulus Modalities in Choice Presentations Prenatal Psychological Processes |
AbstractIt was hypothesized that performance on auditory-auditory identity matching (AAIM) and auditory-auditory nonidentity matching (AANM) prototype tasks would be predictive of performance on other matching tasks (generalization tasks) involving similar discriminations with adults with intellectual disabilities. Results indicated that: (a) 10 participants who failed the AAIM and AANM prototype tasks failed 93% of the generalization tasks; and (b) 8 participants who passed both AAIM and AANM tasks passed all generalization tasks. The potential of adding these tasks to the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) (Kerr, Meyerson & Flora, 1977) test to improve its utility for people with intellectual disabilities is discussed. |
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