The purpose of this study was to ascertain the effectiveness of specific prelanguage communication programming techniques on the development of communication awareness behaviors of four profoundly mentally handicapped students. Results indicate that the procedures were effective and that, in the majority of cases, the communication awareness behaviors generalized to other situations and individuals. Problems related to defining communication awareness behaviors and communicative stimuli, as well as issues pertaining to generalization, are discussed.
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Sternberg et al. (1983) studied this question.