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Referential communication skills of learning disabled/language impaired children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Timothy J. Meline
Timothy J. Meline*
Affiliation:
University of Montevallo
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Timothy J. Meline, Station 240, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL 35115
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Abstract

Communicative behaviors used in encoding new information were examined. Eighteen learning disabled/language impaired (LD/LI) children were compared with two matched groups of normally developing children: age-mates and language-mates. Behaviors studied included measures of communicative effectiveness, communicative efficiency, verbal output, and referential strategies. LD/LI children did not differ significantly from age-mates. However, they did significantly outperform language-mates. Deficient lexicon and deficient comparison activity hypotheses are discussed in light of the results.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 129 - 139
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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