Theories of language acquisition are related to three aspects of adaptive behavior: maturation, learning, and social adjustment. (Author)

A review of Language and Psychology: Historical Aspects of Psycholinguistics by Arthur L. Blumenthal. (DS)

Explores the relationship between Piaget's work on awareness and aspects of language development, pointing out continuities and discontinuities between the two areas of development. (Author/RH)

Eight articulation disordered kindergarten children and eight normally speaking children were taught an artificial morphophonemic rule. Results revealed essentially no differences in the way the two groups learned the stop class. In contrast, the disordered children incorporated fricatives into the rule more quickly and responded with more…

Conceptually Signed English is advocated as a sign system for hearing impaired persons that reduces the confusion of other sign languages and takes idiomatic usage into account. (CL)

Finds confirmation of the humanizing influence of language in anthropological and linguistic studies, in creation myths, and in the lives of individuals such as Anne Frank and Helen Keller. Sees in George Orwell's "1984" and Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" examples of the dehumanization created by empty or deceptive…

Reports empirical findings indicating that autistic children have a basic cognitive deficit that is not a secondary consequence of social withdrawal. The precise nature of the deficit is discussed, as are studies of autistic children's general intelligence, language abnormalities, and social impairments. (RH)

The study examined verbal and nonverbal communication patterns that occur in parent to child and child to parent interactions with 10 normally developing children and seven children with language disorders (27 to 45 months old). (Author)

The study comparing the appreciation of riddles by 12 visually handicapped and sighted children (7 to 8 years old) supported the hypothesis that visually handicapped children are able to recognize and resolve the incongruities of riddles at the same age as sighted children. (Author/CL)