approximations

Now they begin to formulate their own “first words” by making word approximations like ba for ball or da for dog.

Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993

Now they begin to formulate their own “first words” by making word approximations like ba for ball or da for dog.

Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993

Now they begin to formulate their own “first words” by making word approximations like ba for ball or da for dog.

Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993

Examples of AAC include word approximations, gestures, signs, communication boards with pictures and speech-generating computers.

Penn State Live 2010

Examples of AAC include word approximations, gestures, signs, communication boards with pictures and speech-generating computers.

Penn State Live 2010

This language production is characterized by the use of words or phrases without precise meaning (word approximations), the use of nonsense words (neologisms) or real words with private meanings (out-of-class semantic paraphasias), driveling speech in which the syntax appears intact but the meaning (content) of the speech is lost, and responses that are nonsequitive or vague and beside the point (tangential).

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

It means building a skill one tiny step at a time, and cheering the person on for the "approximations" that gradually grow closer to the goal.

The Teacher Belinda 2009

Which makes the next answer easy: Humanity, that is, us, learning, through experimental trial and error, to balance our interests in institutions embodying (hopefully) steadily higher and richer "approximations" of Justice.

In the Libertarian Labyrinth 2008

Which makes the next answer easy: Humanity, that is, us, learning, through experimental trial and error, to balance our interests in institutions embodying (hopefully) steadily higher and richer "approximations" of Justice.

In the Libertarian Labyrinth 2008

Mr. London argues that It may come simply down to the abhorrence of a fixed moral code that enrages atheists who would rather live under "approximations" of morality that change with time.

Political Vindication 2008