Communicating with normal and retarded children /

Communicating with Normal and Retarded Children explores the way in which normal children acquire language and the mistakes they make. It aims to trace the common growth between professions in understanding of normal language development and the retarded person's language and to encourage resea...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Fraser, William I.; Grieve, Robert B.
Published: J. Wright,
Publisher Address: Bristol :
Publication Dates: 1981.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780723605720
Summary: Communicating with Normal and Retarded Children explores the way in which normal children acquire language and the mistakes they make. It aims to trace the common growth between professions in understanding of normal language development and the retarded person's language and to encourage research, particularly of an interdisciplinary kind.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xv, 189 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN: 9780723605720
0723605726
Index Number: RJ506
CLC: G764
Contents: Crying in normal infants / Chris Pratt -- "He sounds and looks sore ..." professionals' evaluations of the profoundly handicapped person's pain and distress signals / William Fraser and Dace Ozols -- Original sin and original virtue / Robert Hoogenraad -- Observations on communication problems in normal children / Robert Grieve -- Clinical presentations of retarded language / William Fraser -- Strategic communication in mental retardation / Ivan Leudar -- Behaviour modification in communication deficit / Ian Tierney -- The pragmatics of language and the mentally handicapped--the speech therapist's role / Sheila Wirz -- Broadening the perspectives on communication problems / William Fraser and Robert Grieve.