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Lewis, Pamela F. – 2001
This brief paper presents a summary of a study which examined the developmental progression of categorization and its relationship to language development in 12 adults with severe to profound mental retardation and with less than 100 words of expressive language (including manual signs). Subjects were asked to sort physically eight miniature…
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Communication Disorders