LING 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Intellectual Disability, Williams Syndrome, Language Disorder
8 Jan 2018
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It accounts for 1/3 of the moderately to severely disabled population (downs syndrome) Down syndrome: by age 6, a ds child often has not yet achieved the vocabulary of typically developing 3 year olds, very protracted grammatical development do not have the grammar of a typically developing. Assume for a moment that language and intelligence are completely separate. Would there be any way that these two could appear to be linked when testing for them. It is possible that you do poorly on a test if you have difficulty concentrating, but not necessarily (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) the (cid:373)ate(cid:396)ial. General aspects of cognition that affect our everyday life. Executive function: if it is impaired, certain aspects of language will be impaired. If your working memory is limited, your language will be affected too: a cover term for a lot of smaller cognitive terms. Suppressing the urge to go with one choice over the other.
