A new graphic way of summarizing information about age in relation to consonant development is proposed. (Author)

English teachers can gain experience and insight when listening to the sound patterns of the young. (MR)

If parents of deaf children use all of the opportunities that occur daily to give their children the best possible language, it is stated that deaf children can learn to talk. (KW)

The language-learning outline, which is a process approach and which describes seven variables of language-learning processes, can be used as a descriptive and prescriptive guide for the teacher in determining a child's lowest levels of consistently successful functioning. (Author/KW)

What is questioned here is not the teaching of words but their premature imposition upon the child before he has acquired the concepts that underlie them. (Author)

Three experiments using 3- and 4-year-olds as subjects tested the hypothesis that focal colors are more salient than nonfocal colors for young children and are the areas to which color names initially become attached. (NH)

Teaching language requires teachers to provide conditions that are conductive to encouraging children to talk. (CK)

Clarifies distinction between figurative and operative knowing and its relationship to symbolic functioning. Outlines how the concepts of symbol, language and signification fit within the Piagetian Theory of Knowing. (Author/NH)

Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, Chicago, Illinois, October 18, 1969. (WY)