Empirical studies evaluating speech and language intervention procedures applied to children with autism are reviewed, and the documented benefits are summarized. In particular, interventions incorporating sign language, discrete-trial training, and milieu teaching procedures have been used successfully to expand the communication repertoires of children with autism. Other important development...

It is widely assumed that sign languages are secondary semiotic phenomena that only come into being when deafness prevents the normal acquisition of a spoken language. That this is not always the case is well illustrated by the sign languages used by contemporary indigenous Australian groups (Kendon 1989), and the sign language shared by indigenous peoples of the Plains region of North America ...

Der Beitrag beschreibt die Single Sign-On Clinic Card-Lösung zur zentralen Verwaltung von Gesundheitskarten im Krankenhaus. Ziel dieses Konzeptes ist es, die propagierten Effektivitätsund Effizienzverbesserungspotenziale, gegeben durch die Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarten, vorteilhafter heben zu können, als es die bisher von der gematik spezifizierten Ansätze zur geplanten HBA-In...

Sign language descriptions that use an analytic model borrowed from spoken language structural linguistics have proved to be not fully appropriate. Pictorial and action-like modes of expression are integral to how signed utterances are constructed and to how they work. However, observation shows that speakers likewise use kinesic and vocal expressions that are not accommodated by spoken languag...

A sign language has emerged among three generations of deaf people and their families in a Bedouin community in the Negev desert. This newly reported case sheds light on the minimal environmental social factors required to generate a language.

This paper introduces two new representations for real-parameter spaces—the Dedekind and Isodedekind representations. Point mutation and uniform crossover—in their generalised, representation-independent form—are shown, when instantiated with respect to these representations, to give rise to familiar operators for continuous domains, such as gaussian mutation, blend crossover and line recombina...

In this paper, we propose a new operation, Generalised Sequential Crossover (GSCO) of words, which in some sense an abstract model of crossing over of the chromosomes in the living organisms. We extend GSCO over language L iteratively (GSCO∗(L) as well as iterated GSCO over two languages GSCO∗(L1, L2)). Our study reveals that GSCO ∗(L) is subclass of regular languages for any L. We compare the ...

We present a study on hyperon/anti-hyperon production asymmetries in the framework of the recombination model. The production asymmetries for Λ/Λ̄, Ξ/Ξ and Ω/Ω are studied as a function of xF . Predictions of the model are compared to preliminary data on hyperon/anti-hyperon production asymmetries in 500 GeV/c π−p interactions from the Fermilab E791 experiment. The model predicts a growing asymm...

Hedayat and Yang earlier proved that balanced uniform designs in the entire class of crossover designs based on t treatments, n subjects, and pD t periods are universally optimal when n· t .t ¡ 1/=2. Surprisingly, in the class of crossover designs with t treatments and p D t periods, a balanced uniform design may not be universally optimal if the number of subjects exceeds t .t ¡ 1/=2. This art...