This article describes procedures used to enable a 10-year-old language-
impaired pupil to use the Paget Gorman Signing System (PGSS) and
DataPac strategies in reading. The pupil suffers from a variety of
language deficiencies, of which labelling and word retrieval problems
were the most severe. Short intervention sessions over a period of seven
months were given, involving the use of words from the fuzzbuzz
scheme. The results, which showed some improvement in the pupil's
performance, are given. The contribution of the intervention sessions is
discussed.
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