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Peer reviewedScherer, Nancy J.; Owings, Nathaniel O. – Language and Speech, 1984
Reports a study in which Late Stage 1 Down's syndrome children's responses were examined for their pragmatic and semantic relationships to four types of requests used by mothers. Findings indicate the responses used by retarded children and normal children are the same at this linguistic stage. (SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Connected Discourse, Downs Syndrome, Listening Comprehension
