A major contribution of this book is the emphasis on relevant work outside of mental retardation for understanding and treating the language and communication problems of persons with mental retardation.
Language and Mental Retardation, Empirical and Conceptual Considerations
Volume 27 of the International Review of Research in Mental Retardation focuses exclusively on these language and communication issues.
ISBN: 0-12-366226-5 Volume 25 2002, 312 pp. ISBN: 0-12-366225-7 Volume 24 2001, 384 pp. ISBN: 0-12-366224-9 Volume 23 Autism This thematic volume provides a comprehensive overview of research on autism.
(Stratton, Howe, & Battaglia, 1996). Although a possible connection between alcohol consumption by mothers during pregnancy and subsequent birth defects has been known throughout history, only in the late 1960s and early 1970s was FAS ...
10 Language in mental retardation : Associations with and dissociations from general cognition ANNE E. FOWLER Language specificity has been a central theme of recent research on language acquisition and language processing in persons ...
Thus, this book is oriented around the psychological processes of interest, namely learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, and emotion, and concludes with a section on the relationship between these processes and the biological ...
This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders.
The Handbook is comprehensive with regard to children's ages, covering language disorders in children from infancy to high school age.