Topic continuing and nontopic continuing utterances produced by three productively language-disordered preschoolers were analyzed. Results suggested that Ss produced a proportion of adjacent utterances comparable to proportions previously reported for children with normal production language skills and that they relied on an imitation strategy to…

Compares verbal output of 12 adolescents with autism or mental retardation with adults using two different sets of verbal behaviors. Results indicates that when adults used a facilitative rather than a directive (or question-based) style, Ss indicated a significantly higher proportion of main topics and produced significantly higher proportions of…

Explores the difficulty in defining cliche and distinguishing it from other idiomatic and indelible expressions in the English language. (HTH)

Conclusion of a two-part article. (SK)

An interview with Maurice Sendak, illustrator and writer of childrens literature. (RB)

Ideas regarding the language needs of children from poverty areas and how best to meet these needs. (GB)

Significant correlations between two speech-sound discrimination (SSD) tests and ITPA expressive language skills subtests and insignificant correlations between SSD tests and subtests measuring receptive and associative language skills indicated that ability to discriminate speech sounds is more related to speaking than to understanding or…

Outlines some of the key ideas in the development of a British project for improving literacy. These include expressive language, the connection between language and learning, and the idea of participant and spectator roles. (CT)