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The Development of Glancing at Listener as Result of Conversation Training in Children and Young Adults With Moderate and Severe Developmental Disabilities

Sixteen mentally retarded persons participated in a study in order to learn how to speak to their peers. Eight of the participants were children, 9 to 16 years of age, while the remaining eight participants were young adults, 22 to 36 years of age. All the participants had developed adequate verbal behavior making them capable of communicating with their peers. However, parents and caretakers reported that they had never observed the participants talk to each other. The participants were assigned to six different groups on the basis of their scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale. All the participants learned how to carry on a conversation with the peers from their group and generalized this ability with peers in other groups and in other settings. As the frequency of speaking to a peer increased, so did the frequency of the social appropriate behavior of looking at person, when speaking to him or her.