A Comparative Study of Speech Perception in Young Severely Retarded Children and Normally Developing Infants.

Eilers, Rebecca E.; Oller, D. Kimbrough

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ERIC Number: EJ230453

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Publication Date: 1980-Jun

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A Comparative Study of Speech Perception in Young Severely Retarded Children and Normally Developing Infants.

Eilers, Rebecca E.; Oller, D. Kimbrough

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, v23 n2 p419-28 Jun 1980

The discrimination of minimally paired speech sounds by seven severely retarded children (mean age 3.2 years, and mean IQ 38.4) was compared with the discrimination performance of eight normally developing 7-month-old infants. (Author/PHR)

Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Infants, Perceptual Development, Severe Mental Retardation, Speech, Young Children

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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