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Kauffman, Nancy Allen – 1980
Seven characteristics of the learning disabled child are described and suggestions to remediate these problems, from the viewpoint of an occupational therapist, are provided. Following are the seven areas (with sample teaching suggestions in parentheses): (1)tactile defensiveness (encourage children to use sand, clay, and finger paint with sawdust…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Eye Hand Coordination, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities
Biestman, Margot – 1970
The discussion and activities in this booklet are designed to "tune in" language arts teachers to children's language so that they appreciate and respond properly to student language development. Chapter topics include responding to authentic/inauthentic child language, keeping records of children's spontaneous language and relating the words to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts
Black, Ruth W. – 1979
The crib talk reported here of a 2;2-2;4-year-old boy replicates the phenomenon of crib talk reported in previous studies by other investigators. This study adds a corpus of mother-child interaction (MCI) and tests one aspect of the hypothesis that crib talk may enhance production of linguistic forms at a later date. Transcripts of monologues were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing
Kruse, M. Ramona – 1979
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an instructional program in reading and language development in the content areas of science, social studies, and mathematics in grade two. An experimental group received formally prepared lessons in reading for twenty minutes per day for five weeks each, in science, social studies,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science
DURRELL, DONALD D.; SULLIVAN, HELEN B. – 1958
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY WERE--(1) TO DISCOVER VARIATIONS IN LANGUAGE ACHIEVEMENTS OF CHILDREN AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF MENTAL RETARDATION, (2) TO DISCOVER "OPEN CHANNELS" FOR CURRENT EDUCATION OF THESE CHILDREN, (3) TO CHART THE FREQUENCY OF SPECIFIC DIFFICULTIES IN THE INTAKE AND OUTPUT IDEAS THROUGH LANGUAGE, AND (4) TO IDENTIFY…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Handicapped Children
MUMA, JOHN R. – 1967
THE FREQUENCY OF 'ASPECT' (PERFECT AND PROGRESSIVE IN THE AUXILIARY) WAS REPORTED FOR RETARDED, NORMAL, AND SUPERIOR CHILDREN ACROSS AGE AND THE ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE MODALITIES. DATA WERE LIMITED IN SEVERAL RESPECTS, PARTICULARLY SIZE OF SAMPLE. THIS IS A PILOT STUDY RATHER THAN A SERIOUS EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND PROCESSES OF LANGUAGE…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Grammar, Handicapped Children
CARTER, JOHN L. – 1967
THE SHORT- AND LONG-RANGE EFFECTS OF A LANGUAGE STIMULATION PROGRAM ON THE LINGUISTIC ABILITY AND INTELLIGENCE OF EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED FIRST-GRADE NEGRO CHILDREN WERE STUDIED. SUBJECTS WERE RANDOMLY PLACED IN EXPERIMENTS (E) AND CONTROL (C) GROUPS OF 32 PUPILS MATCHED ON STANDARDIZED PRETEST BATTERIES WHICH DETERMINED THEIR LANGUAGE AND…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educationally Disadvantaged, Followup Studies, Grade 1
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1967
PLANNING AUTHORITIES IN THE COUNTRIES OF ASIA SHOULD PLAN TO USE THE WIDE, INSTANTANEOUS RANGE AND INTIMATE APPEAL OF BROADCASTING TO LIFT THE LOW LEVELS OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, PRODUCTIVITY, INCOME, MOTIVATION, AND NATIONAL INVOLVEMENT OF THEIR PEOPLE. IN PLANNING FOR ITS USE IN FORMAL EDUCATION, THEY SHOULD ANTICIPATE NEEDS IN SCHOOL-BUILDING…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Career Development, Conferences
OYER, HERBERT J. – 1967
DESIGNED FOR STUDENT AND PRACTICING SPEECH PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS, THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE HISTORY OF AUDITORY TRAINING, PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH HEARING LOSS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORAL LANGUAGE, BASIC CONCEPTS OF AUDITORY PERCEPTION, AND SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF AUDITORY TRAINING. SUCH ASPECTS INCLUDE--(1) FACTORS RELATING TO AUDITORY TRAINING,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Curriculum Evaluation
Rhodes, Lynn K. – 1979
Reading can be defined as a meaningful interaction with a print setting. Interactive models of reading assume that lower level and higher level processing occurs simultaneously, interacting with each other. The familiarity of the book, the context in which a sign occurs, and the illustrations of a book are all examples of print setting cues that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Concept Formation
Furukawa, James M.; Sakamoto, Takahiko – 1980
It is estimated that approximately 15% of the school children in the United States have reading problems, while only about 1% of students in Japan have such difficulties. A joint study was conducted by researchers in the two countries to identify possible causes for this difference. Subjects were 61 Japanese kindergarten students in an urban…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
McLeod, John; And Others – 1979
This final report contains information on the Saskatoon Pre-School Project, which was part of a more comprehensive research and development project designed to develop effective services for educationally handicapped children in rural areas around Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada). One chapter of the report provides an account of the planning,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Exceptional Persons, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
King, Helen Lamar – INSIGHTS into Open Education, 1979
In a study of differences and similarities between children's oral and written stories, 23 third grade pupils wrote stories about a given topic and then, two weeks later, told stories about the same topic. Analysis of the stories revealed five types of narrative structures, of which the most commonly used was a "situation-problem-solution"…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Feedback
Gorman, Thomas P., Ed. – 1977
Comprising a study of the application of linguistics to literacy, the 16 papers in this book were prepared by contributors from both developing and developed nations. The papers in the first section illustrate the relevance of certain developments in theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics to literacy teaching.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Christie, Frances – 1979
The national Language Development Project in Australia, an undertaking concerned with informing teachers on matters to do with language, language development, and language and learning, is described in this report. The various sections of the report establish the project's purposes; offer discussions of developments in thinking and research of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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