英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study focused on examining the effects of picture book instruction in improving sight words and social vocabulary of elementary school age children with mind mental retardation. Participants were two students placed in self-contained special education classroom of an elementary school, included one boy and one girl, and aged from 8 years 1 month old to 8 years 10 months old. A multiple probe across behaviors design was conducted in this research. The independent variable in this research was the picture book instruction, and the dependent variables were the sight words and social vocabulary. Forty- minutes of picture book instruction session was given twice per week, and the intervention lasted for 16 sessions during eight weeks. The measuring tests included picture book instruction, sight words scale, social vocabulary scale. The results showed: (1) The findings indicated that there was a significant effect of social vocabulary for Student A| (2) There were significant effects of sight words and social vocabulary for students B. |