ERIC Number: ED092260
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1974-Jul
Pages: 35
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Understanding Young Children: Language Development and Language Disabilities.
Mayer, Colleen A.
This booklet offers practical, easy-to-read suggestions for teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents to help them understand language development and language disabilities. The first section highlights some of the factors involved in language development. The second section deals with some of the common causes for language disabilities and provides numerous suggestions for appropriate language activities. Cartoon-style drawings illustrate the text. This booklet should be especially helpful in the training of teachers and caregivers who work with handicapped children in a regular classroom. (CS)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Language Patterns, Motor Development, Perceptual Development, Receptive Language, Speech Improvement, Teaching Guides, Teaching Methods, Verbal Communication
Publications Office/I.R.E.C., College of Education, University of Illinois, 805 W. Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (Catalog No. 117, $1.25)
Publication Type: Guides - General
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Sponsor: Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC.; Office of Child Development (DHEW), Washington, DC.; National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: ERIC Clearinghouse on Early Childhood Education, Champaign, IL.; Alaska Treatment Center for Crippled Children and Adults, Inc., Anchorage.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Note: For other documents in this series, see PS 007 403-405 and 407