A speech/language remediation-intervention model is proposed to enhance processing of auditory information in students with language or learning disabilities. Such children have difficulty attending to language signals (verbal and nonverbal responses ranging from facial expressions and gestures to those requiring the generation of complex…

The guide describes communication games--simple, noncompetitive structured activities designed to promote conversational and linguistic skills in children with language delays and language disabilities. The approach is distinguished from traditional approaches by the creation of a genuine need for talking rather than arbitrary demands, emphasis on…

Graduates (N=54) of a program for profoundly hearing impaired infants and their families were assessed from 1 to 6 years after leaving the program to determine the longitudinal effectiveness of the early intervention. Effects of five variables (sex, parents' educational levels, birth order, parents' hearing status, and age of intervention) on the…

Results are described of a study of vocalizations of two female infants, classified as cry, discomfort, and vegetative sounds, recorded between one and eight weeks of age. The implications for later speech development are discussed. (Author/RM)

The author identifies two operations, "dump" and "play", that take place in human communication and analyzes the communication efforts of young children (prior to age 8) in terms of the limitations in cognitive development that govern their communication. (Author/LS)

The author discusses the language-disordered child in the clinical setting in relation to J. Muma's theory of "dump" and "play" operations in communication (EC 073301). (LS)

This bibliography includes titles of unpublished works in various fields of linguistics such as grammar (morphology, phonology and syntax), socioli nguistics, psycholinguistics, foreign language instruction, language acquisit ion, discourse analysis, poetics, etc. (Text is in German.) (DS)

A theory of language acquistion is proposed in outline which derives from a view of language as primarily a code for the communication of meaning intentions. (Editor)

Theories about language functions, the ways in which language is used, are discussed. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

The psychological order of difficulty among logical propositions with various logical connectives was assessed by testing a sample of high school adolescents. (Author/KM)

Research is reported in which children were tested for their comprehension of four types of sentences with relative clauses. The Parallel Function Hypothesis is proposed, and implications for adult grammar are discussed. (Author/RM)

The nature of paradoxes prevalent in the field of foreign language teaching today are examined. (RM)

A child's acquisition of language may be influenced by imitation, reinforcement, inheritance and the active involvement of the child himself. (JH)

There are a number of views of the relationship between language and thinking. Two prominent figures in developmental psychology, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, proposed theories of language and thinking which also involve the notion of "communication." For Piaget, thinking develops first, and language comes along as an expression of…