Elicited Imitation Ability of Children from Learning Disabled and Regular Classes
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Vol. 12 (7) , 456-461
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002221947901200705
Abstract
In this study 40 normal and 40 learning disabled children classified by age (5 and 6) and level of auditory discrimination (impaired and normal) were tested for language ability using an elicited imitation paradigm. Learning disabled children exhibited more errors, had more difficulty extracting the semantic componeant from the model sentence, and gave more reformulations than normal children. Results supported a deficit hypothesis in regard to the learning disabled child's language rather than a deviancy hypothesis. In addition, the elicited imitation technique was found to be inappropriate for children with impaired auditory discrimination ability.Keywords
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