Sensorimotor Functioning and Prelinguistic Communication of Severely and Profoundly Retarded Individuals.

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Adolescents; Children; Communication Skills; Language Acquisition; Nonverbal Communication; Severe Mental Retardation

In a study involving 40 institutionalized severely and profoundly retarded children and adolescents, more competent sensorimotor performance was associated with higher frequency of more sophisticated gestural communication, and Ss generally used more complex gestures to communicate in the imperative than in the declarative tasks. (Author/CL)

1981

EJ243953