The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities was used to test and compare the language related functioning of 20 autistic and 20 mentally retarded 11-12 year olds. (BB)

The language research study was designed to compare first, the meanings of concrete words having visual connotations and second, the groupings or clusters of adjective scales resulting from factor analysis as they were used by 143 blind, partially sighted, and normal school-age children. (CB)

Condensed version of a study reported in "Pimsleur Language Test Forum No. 4, available from Test Department, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 757 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. (DS)

THIS EXPERIMENT IS DESIGNED TO ULTIMATELY ESTABLISH A TECHNIQUE FOR STUDYING THE APHASIC'S ABILITY TO DEMONSTRATE HIS GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE. HOWEVER, BEFORE EXPOSING APHASICS TO THE TASK, AN EXPERIMENT WAS CARRIED OUT WITH NORMAL SUBJECTS (COLLEGE STUDENTS) TO OBTAIN BASELINE DATA. THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE PRESENT STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER…

LANGUAGE ABILITY IS ESSENTIAL TO A CHILD'S SUCCESS IN SCHOOL, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF COMMUNICATION IS THE CHILD'S ABILITY TO PUT WORDS TOGETHER IN MEANINGFUL PATTERNS. THE ABILITY OF ADULTS TO GIVE AN INTERPRETATION TO NONSENSE LIKE "JABBERWOCKY" DEPENDS ON THE SYNTACTIC CUES GIVEN BY RELATIONAL WORDS AND WORD ORDER. IN ORDER TO FIND OUT…

Described is a procedure of sentence repetition useful in assessing the grammatical performance and linguistic competence of a language handicapped child. (KW)

A PENCIL-AND-PAPER TEST WAS CONSTRUCTED TO STUDY DEAF CHILDREN'S LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE (ABILITY TO PRODUCE AND COMPREHEND THE GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES COMPRISING A LANGUAGE). THE TEST WAS TO REFLECT LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF A CHILD'S BEHAVIOR, BUT NOT EXTRALINGUISTIC ASPECTS SUCH AS READING AND WRITING. IT CONSISTED OF FIVE SUBTESTS--(1) REPETITION OF…

Intended for teachers of elementary age hearing impaired students, the article describes the Test of Receptive Language Ability and the Test of Expressive Language Ability. (SBH)