Examined resident characteristics most conducive to sociability and the common bonds underlying nursing home friendships. Suggests that lucidity and sight explain a significant proportion of the "loner" status of some residents, while placement on the same unit and contemporaneous age proved to be the most common bonds underlying…

The Screening Kit of Language Development (SKOLD) was designed to meet the following criteria: validity for 2.5 - 4-year-old children, standardization for speakers of standard and Black English, and appropriateness for paraprofessional screeners. This paper describes the development, content, administration, scoring, reliability, and validity of…

An overview of interactive video is presented and applications for faculty and staff development, student educational programing, and clinical practica in communication disorders are offered. The use of the videodisc combined with microcomputers is explored in terms of hardware and software. (CL)

A language intervention approach which incorporates communication games involving vocabulary, syntax, articulation, and conversational situations appeared to result in positive changes for children with no or moderate language delays, but not for those with severe cognitive delays. (CL)

Maintains that our understanding of language is enhanced by the study of pathology, rather than just the study of the normal. It is a sound complementary base to learn more about how language encodes more than labels. It encodes histories, personal myths, and affects and reflects aspects of deviance and delay in function. (SL)

Speech and hearing screening conducted with 136 penitentiary inmates revealed normal prevalence figures for articulation and fluency disorders but appreciably higher prevalence for voice and hearing disorders. Possible correlations with age levels 21-25 years and educational levels 0-6 years were noted. (Author/CL)

The article summarizes a demographic profile of 494 learning disabled students who also exhibited related communication disorders and the impact of this population on speech-language and hearing services. Racial and sexual factors are also examined. (Author/CL)

A screening method for distinguishing speech and language disordered children (2 to 15 years old) with and without psychiatric disorders (N=256) involved cutoff scores for an easily administered parent and teacher behavior rating questionnaire. (CL)

A format was developed at Meyer Children's Rehabilitation Institute (Omaha, Nebraska) to help the parents, teachers, and others become sensitive to the specific vocabulary needs of the nonspeaking child. (Author)

Presents evidence showing that there is no need, in planning or implementing a language program for a retarded child, to exclude nonoral communication. Concludes that consistently supplementing spoken language with nonoral communication systems will not inhibit spoken language development but may well facilitate spoken language by providing a…

A study of teachers and their students in five classrooms each at first-, third-, and fifth-grade levels (15 classrooms total) analyzed the discourse expectations of formal classroom lessons to provide an information base for curriculum-based language intervention. Implications for students with communication disorders are considered. (Author/CR)

Intended for speech-language pathologists, this article considers the challenges for families when a child has a significant and long-term communication disorder and explores two types of grief: stage and episodic. It examines loss/grieving theory and grief and the therapeutic relationship, and offers guidelines to speech language pathologists for…

The notion of "linguistic profile" as an alternative to standardized testing for speech and language disorders is discussed in this tutorial. Two specific examples of profiles, both for disordered phonology, are described, and readers are guided through their use. Finally, their relative strengths and weaknesses are assessed. (Author/CR)

Sixteen adults with language/learning disabilities (L/LD) and 16 controls participated in a study testing sensitivity to word order cues that signaled grammatical versus ungrammatical word strings belonging to an artificial grammar. Participants with L/LD performed significantly below the comparison group, suggesting that this skill is problematic…

The paper presents an overview of issues in augmentative and alternative communication as well as basic information on etiology, prevalence, and associated communication characteristics for the following conditions: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism, developmental verbal apraxia, and specific language disorders. (DB)