Language in Mental Retardation

This book is intended both as a comprehensive review and discussion of the major studies of language development and functioning in mentally retarded (MR) persons over the last fifty years, and as an exploration of a number of important issues in this field. *The use of the term 'mental retardation' is in line with the recommendations of the American Association on Mental Retardation and other relevant organisations.

Jean-Adolphe Rondal PhD is the author of Language in Mental Retardation, published by Wiley. Susan Edwards is the author of Language in Mental Retardation, published by Wiley.

About the authors

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Preface

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Chapter 1 Outline and rationale

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Chapter 2 Historical sketch

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Early speech studies

Early language studies

More theoretically oriented studies

Lenneberg's studies

Psycholinguistically oriented work

Intervention studies

Chapter 3 IQ, sex, social class, syndrome considerations and the question of specificity

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IQ, levels of mental retardation and language

Sex differences

Social class differences

Syndrome considerations

The question of specificity

Chapter 4 Exceptionality and language modularity

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Exceptional language development in mental retardation

Dissociative tendencies in typical mentally retarded subjects

The delay-difference question

The cognition-language question

Language modularity

Chapter 5 Language development and functioning

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The critical period hypothesis

Prelinguistic development

Speech development

Lexical development

Thematic semantics and morphosyntactic regulations

Adult-child interaction and the development of language in the mentally retarded

Language in mentally retarded adults

Ageing and language in mental retardation

Chapter 6 Language remediation

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Dimensions and contents

The efficiency issue

Alternative and augmentative systems of communication (AASC)

Literacy training

Memory and language

Computer-enhanced language intervention

Chapter 7 Perspectives

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References

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Author Index

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Subject Index

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Language in Mental Retardation

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