GESTURE LANGUAGE FOR A SEVERELY RETARDED FEMALE

Cytogenetics study in severely mentally retarded patients.

OBJECTIVE To study the frequency of chromosomal abnormalities in severely mentally retarded Iraqi patients. Secondly, to determine the types of chromosomal abnormalities that play a major role in the causation of mental retardation and to compare our results with those reported elsewhere. METHODS Twenty-one patients with severe mental retardation were subject to chromosomal analysis. The lymp...

Effects of a Severely Mentally Retarded Child on Family Integration

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Progression of Hepatic Neoplasms Is Severely Retarded in Mice

The glycosyltransferase termed GlcNAc-TIII is dedicated to the trans fer of a single W-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) residue (the bisecting GlcNAc), to a subset of W-glycans in glycoproteins. The addition of this GlcNAc is differentially regulated during development and is induced in certain cancers, particularly in hepatic tumorigenesis. To investigate a functional role for the bisecting GlcNAc i...

Gesture and Language Dialectic

A classic psycholinguistic problem is parole; in its modern formulation, performance . This paper looks at aspects of parole or performance from a new direction, arguing that it is organized as a dialectic of unlike cognitive modes, a dialectic of gesture imagery and language. This dialectic is the key to the evocation, organization, and ultimate execution of meaningful actions shaped to take l...

Language and Gesture Evolution