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Geniuses at a Loss for Words
Learning Idioms by Context
The Movie in Your Head
Music Helps Memory for Words
Preemies at School
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Saving the Family Dinner
Speech and Language Games
Talking with Your Hands
Teaching with Provocation
The Benefits of Talking to Oneself
Understanding Inference
What Reading Does for the Mind
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Receptive Language
Receptive language problems may
result in big underestimations of a child's ability.
Children are often aware and embarrassed of language
confusion, so they may turn invisible - saying little
and hoping not to be noticed.
Students with receptive language problems are often
misdiagnosed as being globally mentally retarded. In a
culture in which individuals are supposed to
"show-what-know", reverse is too often assumed....that
if you have trouble showing what you know, you don't
know very much.
But children with receptive language problems show their
intelligence in many nonverbal ways - for those who are
willing to look carefully.
In
The Mislabeled Child,
we talk about how language is like a file cabinet in the
brain. If a person has trouble making sense of speech,
it's important to pinpoint the source of the problem.
Only that will tell you whether the answer is to work on
word retrieval, discrimination of similar sounds, or
sentence organization.
In school, bright, but language-impaired students may
make enough educated guesses to keep up with classmates
in school. At least that may work for awhile, until the
sheer quantity of language catches up to them.
Some speech language pathology programs are better
geared to helping with Expressive Language problems more
than Receptive. As a result, receptive language students
may fail to get the help they need to understand the
information they're being presented with in school.
Outside Links
AmericanAccent.com
Apraxia-Kids Library
Caroline Bowen's
Speech Site
Happy Note(free game to train pitch)
Phonetics Site
Randall's
Cyber-Listening
Lab
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