PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Specific Language Impairment, Echolalia, Intellectual Disability
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Why study special populations: 1. helping children who are having difficulty with lg acquisition, providing a scientific basis for designing programs to optimize their lg skills. 2. addressing fundamental questions about how different human abilities contribute to the lg acquisition process. Prelingually deaf children: born with a severe hearing loss and those who lose their hearing in infancy. When children experience even temporary hearing loss before 18 months of age, they are at substantially higher risk than other children for lg delay during their first three yrs. Over all, the evidence suggests that there are real effects on speech and language development of the intermittent hearing loss that accompanies early otitis media but that the long-term impact is small. Oralist method: in which deaf children are intensively coached in producing speech and trained in reading lips. Children acquiring asl make over regularization errors in their use of morphological markers, producing forms analogous to goed or holded.
