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Signaling of Noncomprehension by Children and Adolescents with Mental Retardation: Effects of Problem Type and Speaker Identity.
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Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
Noncomprehension signaling by 16 school-age children with mild mental retardation was compared with performance of 16 typically developing children matched for nonverbal mental age. Message type and speaker were manipulated in a direction-following task. Message type, not speaker, influenced noncomprehension signaling, with no intergroup…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Interpersonal Communication
Effects of Sampling Context on the Expressive Language of Children and Adolescents with Mental Retardation.
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Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1995
Conversational and narrative language samples were elicited from 16 school-age individuals with mental retardation and 16 typically developing children matched for mental age. Analysis demonstrated that both groups produced more syntactically complex language during narration, whereas they were more talkative during conversation. Results support…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education