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Peer reviewedTamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Bornstein, Marc H. – New Directions for Child Development, 1993
Reviews research on quantitative and qualitative indexes of play, and relationships between play and language. Finds consistent relationships between duration and level of play throughout early development, and parallel developments in play and language. Indicates that measures of spontaneous activity and habituation in infancy predict…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Habituation
Peer reviewedBebko, James M. – Sign Language Studies, 1990
Review of literature on indicators of the effectiveness of language intervention programs for autistic children showed that mitigation in echolalia was a critical characteristic, as it implied that the prerequisites for language were accessible through speech. Children whose speech ranged from mutism to unmitigated echolalia had a more negative…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Echolalia, Expressive Language
