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Growing Old with Retardation: The Language of Survivors.

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Fujiki, Martin; Brinton, Bonnie – Topics in Language Disorders, 1993

This paper examines general issues in the communicative skills and needs of elderly persons with mental retardation. It then compared 20 elderly and 20 young adults with mild to moderate mental retardation and found that elderly subjects were better able to respond to listener feedback and were more assertive in controlling the conversation. (JDD)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Assertiveness, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis

Communication Skills and Community Integration in Adults with Mild to Moderate Retardation.

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Brinton, Bonnie; Fujiki, Martin – Topics in Language Disorders, 1993

This study contrasted communicative skills of 20 community-based adults with mental retardation with those of 20 institutionalized adults. The institutionalized group was more assertive and less responsive than the community-based group. The institutionalized group also devoted more utterances to inappropriate topics and provided fewer repairs…

Descriptors: Adults, Assertiveness, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis