Investigated with 296 hearing impaired young adults and adults was the effect of delay between auditory and visual aspects of the speech message in an oral-manual interpreting situation. (Author/CL)

The article describes a reading program appropriate for the average deaf children without age-level language abilities. A top-down element features telling stories, reading aloud, creating narratives from the child's experiences, routines with picture books, functional literacy, and environmental print. A bottom-up component stresses letter…

Ten children with a history of prematurity and respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) were matched with 101 full-term controls in the single-word stage of language. Control subjects demonstrated superior performance on all receptive language and child verbosity measures despite their younger age. (Author/CL)

Recent developments in cognitive science are assessed as challenge to well established view in philosophy of linguistics that meaning is inherent to language and is relatively fixed. Information provided by words and sentences, language comprehension, constructions of interpretations (not meanings), and arguments against relativism are discussed.…

Comments on the seven points of consensus presented in "A Theoretical Basis for Teaching the Receptive Skills" by Stephen Krashen, et al., particularly on the terminology that is derived from Krashen's other writings. Offers eight statements which reflect in more general terms an interpretation of Krashen's theories for language teachers…

Young children were found to overextend and underextend newly uttered but previously understood words. The data are discussed in terms of differences between children's and adult's word meanings and between comprehension and production. (Author)

Proposes three dimensions of lexical competence: partial to precise knowledge; depth of knowledge; and receptive to productive use ability. The relationship between the two knowledge dimensions and the acquisition of word meaning is considered, with emphasis on the complexity of the semantization process and on the need for redefining lexical…

The study examined the ability of five deaf-blind subjects to receive fingerspelled materials through the tactual sense, and of six deaf subjects to receive fingerspelling through the visual sense. Results found highly accurate tactual reception at normal rates and suggested that rates for visual reception are limited by the rate of manual…

This study of 15 pupils (ages 7-10) with severe learning difficulties found that mental age (as measured by the British Picture Vocabulary Scale--a measure of receptive language ability) was correlated with counting performance. The study also found that being able to count accurately did not automatically lead to understanding the principles of…

Comparison of the receptive vocabulary of 24 undergraduate college students with hearing loss to that of 24 peers with normal hearing found that approximately three-fourths of those with hearing loss performed poorly. Vocabulary skills were not found to be associated with degree of hearing loss. (DB)

Describes a method of altering auditory input (Altered Auditory Input) and a structured set of listening tasks (Language Webs) for use with children who have language delays or impairments. The parameters of rate, prosody, and pattern of pausing are modified in the Altered Auditory Input (AAI) technique and Language Webs offer redundant,…

Examined the influence of working memory on the off-line and real-time sentence comprehension/ processing of children with specific language impairment (SLI). Twelve children with SLI, 12 normally developing children matched for chronological age (CA), and 12 children matched for receptive syntax completed three tasks. Suggests that SLI children…

A study involving eight toddlers (aged 22 months) with hearing loss found significant correlations between the children's receptive vocabulary sources and other subscales of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory, as well as other measures of language, aspects of nonverbal cognition, and an assessment of symbolic play skills. (Contains…

This study analyzed 36 digitized spondaic words for speech reception threshold in an attempt to create a more homogeneous set of spondaic words for research on determining hearing loss for speech. None of the acoustic properties were correlated with word thresholds. When the threshold of each word was adjusted to the mean threshold, dispersion was…