A COMPARISON OF PHONOLOGICAL PROCESS USAGE IN YOUNG EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN WITH PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN OF NORMAL INTELLIGENCE.
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Title
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A COMPARISON OF PHONOLOGICAL PROCESS USAGE IN YOUNG EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN WITH PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN OF NORMAL INTELLIGENCE.
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Identifier
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AAI8319775
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identifier
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8319775
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Creator
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KLINK, MARCIA LYNN.
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Contributor
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Lawrence Raphael
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Date
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1983
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Health Sciences, Speech Pathology
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Abstract
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The speech production skills of young educable mentally retarded children and pre-school children of normal intelligence from local schools were examined. The experimental group contained 20 mentally retarded children with I.Q. scores between 50 and 75. The first control group contained 10 children of normal intelligence who demonstrated a communication handicap. The second control group contained 10 children of normal intelligence who had no communication handicap. All children were matched on the basis of mean length of utterance scores between 3.0 and 5.0 which were obtained in a spontaneous speech sample. The subjects in the study were administered the Weiner Phonological Process Analysis Tool.;The results of the investigation showed that the phonological processes can be ordered with certain processes precluding the existence of others in children's speech patterns. This ordering of the processes, based on prevalence, was evident for all the children in the study.;The retarded and communication handicapped used a significantly greater total number of processes, and used the processes more frequently, than the normal speaking group. No significant difference was found between the retarded and the communication handicapped groups in the frequency analyses. Syllabic structure analysis demonstrated that the retarded and communication handicapped children used the phonological processes most often in CVCC structures. Normal speaking children used the processes most often in CCV structures.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Speech Pathology
