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Hammond Jill; Bailey, Patricia – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1976
The Bliss Symbol System, an international pictorial language, is being used in Great Britain to help children with speech difficulties communicate in school and home. (IM)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition

Snyder, Lynn S. – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
Discusses research results that demonstrate that nonlinguistic symbolic deficits of language-impaired children may actually reflect resource allocation constraints and cross-modality deficits. Discusses implications of studies that contrast symbolic action development in normally developing children with that in children with specific language…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition