This paper presents a program designed to teach American Sign Language (ASL) symbols to three multiply handicapped children. The goal of the program was the acquisition of non-oral symbols that would serve the same communicative functions that oral language serves for non-handicapped children. The program designed to achieve the goal consisted of three phases: i) Exposure to a sign paired with examples, 2) Clinician evoked sign production and 3) Situationally evoked sign production. The program was effective in increasing spontaneous generative sign production in the three children.
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