Language in Mental Retardation

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.

• Outline and Rationale. Historical Sketch. Early Speech Studies.Early language Studies.More Theoretically Oriented Studies.Lenneberg's Studies.Psycholinguistically Oriented Work.Intervention Studies. IQ.Sex Social Class.Syndrome Considerations, and The Specificity Question.Iq, Levels of Mental retardation, and Language.Sex Differences.Social Class Differences.Syndrome considerations.The Specificity Question. Exceptionality and Language modularity.Exceptional Language Development in Mental Retardation.Dissociative Tendencies in Typical Mentally Retarded Subjects.The delay-difference Question.The Cognition-language Question.Language modularity.Language Development and Functioning.The Critical Period Question.Prelinguistic Development.Speech.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.Language Remediation.Dimensions and contents.The Efficiency Issue.Alternative and Augmentative Systems of communication.Literary Training.Memory and Language.Computer-enhanced language Intervention.Perspectives.