This paper discusses Lee and Canter's procedure for assessing child language development as an example of how psycholinguistics is beginning to enter the language clinic. The procedure includes recording and transcribing examples of children's sentences, then scoring them to yield a Developmental Sentence Score (DDS). This procedure was compared to two other measures of child language developme...

Mainstream children generally experience typical stages throughout the milestones of their language development, from crying, cooing, babbling, until mature speech. Nevertheless, with special condition usually have difficulties in getting through each phase such as those having expressive disorder. These encounter problems communicating needs and ideas verbally or non-verbally. This study attem...

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard language. Would such a child be able to invent a language? Despite what one might guess, the answer is "yes". This chapter describes children who are congenitally deaf and cannot learn the spoken language that surrounds them. In addition, the children have not been exposed to sign language, either by their hearing parents or their oral schools. Nevert...

The inquiry into children’s language acquisition has shifted in the past 25 years in ways both profound and, perhaps, not so profound, yielding several themes that dominate current thinking about the enterprise. These themes have to do with the CHILD who is acquiring the language, THEORY about the language the child acquires, and the ESSENTIAL TENSION that is necessary for development of both t...

Fifty-one children with language delays, and their mothers, were studied to identify characteristics of the children’s utterances that potentially influence an aspect of maternal linguistic input: expansions. A subset of 33 of these dyads was studied and submitted to sequential analysis to identify the types of child utterances mothers were most likely to expand. Twenty-minute mother-child free...

OBJECTIVE To examine at 7 years the language abilities of children, the salience of early life factors and language scores as predictors of language outcome, and co-occurring difficulties METHODS: A longitudinal cohort study of 1910 infants recruited at age 8 to 10 months. Exposures included early life factors (sex, prematurity, birth weight/order, twin birth, socioeconomic status, non-English ...