A growing body of literature is suggesting that many children with language disorders and delays - even those with so-called specific language impairment - have difficulties in other domains as well. In this study, the authors draw on more than 40 years of research and clinical observations of populations ranging from various groups of children to adults with brain damage, to construct a comprehensive model for the development of the interrelated skills involved in language performance, and trace the crucial implications of this model for intervention. Early tactual feedback, they argue, is...

A growing body of literature is suggesting that many children with language disorders and delays - even those with so-called specific language impairment - have difficulties in other domains as well. In this study, the authors draw on more than 40 years of research and clinical observations of populations ranging from various groups of children to adults with brain damage, to construct a comprehensive model for the development of the interrelated skills involved in language performance, and trace the crucial implications of this model for intervention. Early tactual feedback, they argue, is...

Perception, Interaction and Language is essentially about the nature of adaptive learning in both its normal and abnormal forms. A major pre mise is that verbal and nonverbal learning depend critically on interaction with the environment via daily life problem solving activity. This new perspective is not entirely unfamiliar. But, a fundamentally new perspec tive is offered by the additional premise that tactile-kinesthetic percep tion associated with problem solving experiences provides the primary basis for interaction and hence, is the root of adaptive learning and de velopment. Although...