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Leonard, Laurence B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1981
Presents a critical review of studies designed to teach language production skills to children with specific language impairment. The evidence reviewed suggests that a number of training approaches are effective, often resulting in gains that exceed the rate seen in normal development, provided the speaking situation resembles enough the training…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Disabilities, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps

Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1981
Comprehension and strategy use of 18 autistic children was compared with that of normal 3- and 4-year olds. Subjects were asked to act out certain syntactic and semantic patterns in two experiments. Autistic children performed below the levels of the normal subjects, suggesting that autism is a semantic/cognitive deficit. (PJM)
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Comprehension, Language Handicaps
Ingram, David – 1972
A study made to examine the development in production of the English verbal auxiliary and copula (VAC) "to be" compared a group of children with language dysfunction and a group of normal children. Two purposes were to see whether developmental differences are qualitative or quantitative and to calculate the importance of the VAC in language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Language Skills

Rees, Norma S. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1972
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Language, Language Handicaps, Language Universals
Willis, Bruce – 1975
The study summarized in this paper deals with the grammatical analysis of the spontaneous speech of approximately 150 children who are classified as mentally disabled; educable (I.Q. range 50-80). The performance of these mentally disadvantaged children is compared with the performance of 200 normally developing children by using a clinical…
Descriptors: Child Language, Delayed Speech, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Ingram, David – 1970
Analysis of the questions asked by normal children suggests that there are cognitive stages of question development. Samples of spontaneous questions asked by normal children and linguistically deviant children were compared in this study in order to determine if linguistically deviant (aphasic) children suffer primarily from a syntactic…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes

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

Leonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982
Examines the communicative functions served by the lexical usage of normal and language impaired children whose speech was limited to single word utterances. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition

Lindner, Katrin; Johnston, Judith R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Fourteen matched pairs of German-speaking and English-speaking children were tested for their knowledge of grammatical morphology and expressive vocabulary. The finding that the German-speaking children earned higher scores than did the English-speaking children adds to the literature that documents language-specific sensitivity to particular…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, English, Foreign Countries
Farwell, Carol – 1972
Fricatives and affricates in different word positions and initial fricative clusters were elicited from three linguistically deviant children (ages five years, two months to seven years) and one normal child (age two years, nine months) by means of pictures depicting familiar objects. Data from two of the older children and the normal child are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Delayed Speech, Distinctive Features (Language)
Morehead, Donald; Ingram, David – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1970
Language samples of 15 young normal children actively engaged in learning base syntax were compared with samples of 15 linguistically deviant children of a comparable linguistic level. Mean number of morphemes per utterance was used to determine linguistic level. The two groups were matched according to five linguistic levels previously…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Rosenthal, William S.; And Others – 1972
This paper examines the validity of diagnostic categories frequently used to classify children with severe language disorders by determining the relationship of the categories to independently derived developmental, psychological, and medical variables. It is argued that the classification systems currently available too often fail to achieve the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Child Language
Morehead, Donald M.; Johnson, Maxine – 1972
Since the 1950's there has been a tremendous shift in the way language and language behavior is viewed. The shift is characterized as a general movement away from surface observation and analysis to attempts at the description and analysis of underlying linguistic forms. The interest in underlying linguistic forms has, in a rather natural way, led…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Delayed Speech
Morehead, Donald M.; Johnson, Maxine – 1972
Research is being conducted to determine the factors behind linguistic retardation in children. A first question raised was whether the linguistic system of the deviant child is qualitatively different from that of a normal child. A matching-up of deviant and normal children according to linguistic level suggests that the onset of base syntax may…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Delayed Speech

Camarata, Stephen M.; Erwin, Lisa – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
A case study is presented in which a language impaired three-year-old used suprasegmental features to distinguish singular and plural forms in spontaneous speech. Acoustic analyses revealed that the suprasegmentals included various duration, fundamental frequency, and intensity parameters. Phonological, morphological, and psycholinguistic factors…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Case Studies, Child Language, Language Handicaps