Intended as a guide for reviewing the literature on the study of exceptional children, this book presents the authors' contentions that exceptional children may be more clearly understood through a study of language development and that language growth and language development represent an important developmental area which separates these…

Presented are a conceptual and empirical framework and two research reports on the promotion of language and social skills of handicapped preschool children through involvement with nonhandicapped peers. (DB)

Discusses some advantages of multi-age grouping in group child care centers. (ED)

Surveys the actual state of Russian research on verbal behavior as seen from the field of psychology. The research is in four parts: (1) language and thought, especially internal language, (2) neurological aspects of language, (3) child language, and (4) psychology of language learning and teaching for native and foreign languages. (Text is in…

Two modes of story telling, live reading and recorded reading, were compared. Each child heard a story presented by the teacher or a recording and then retold the story. Children in the live group used significantly more words and more correct themes in retelling than did those in the recording group. (Author)

Results of a study are discussed which involved first grade black children who produced multiple instances of linguistic variables. The suggestion is made that the standard English "is" and "has" in certain constructions have been reanalyzed as nominal inflections. (RM)

Progress or deterioration in language use was observed in two samples (one of 59 Ss, the other of 20 Ss) of severely retarded institutionalized residents (mean age 14.8 years). (Author/PHR)

The validity of the Test of Language Development (TOLD) was investigated with normal reading, reading disabled, and language delayed children (ages seven to nine years). (DLS)

Research shows that kindergarten children can and do learn to read, but many questions about early instruction remain unanswered. (MKM)

Alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and rhythm in trade books can be used to increase children's awareness of language. (MKM)

In this essay, some thinking and research about language is discussed in relation to the socialization of children and to the shaping of the school curriculum. The author concludes that the communication gap between schools and students, an important force for socialization, grows larger every day. (JMD)

A discussion of language data suggesting that young bilinguals and monolinguals exhibit a similar sequence of acquisition of standard use of English prepositions and French auxiliaries. Two error analysis studies are summarized, results of them are applied to the Franco-Ontarian and Quebec sociolinguistic contexts, and implications are discussed.…

Five experiments were performed in which nursery school children were taught to identify persons, animals, or objects in pictures that took the nominative, objective, or locative case in sentences about the pictures. Inferences are made about categories in children's thinking including animate, and actor and agent. (CTM)

The author records her experiment with her daughter from birth to the age of four and a half to determine whether a child in a monolingual environment could grow up speaking two languages. The record traces the child's development in both English and French. (MF)