LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION IN THE CEREBRAL PALSIED CHILD

语言理解提供了一个更好的指数， 语言技能比语言生产更重要。 直到1982年， 然而，用于评估语言理解的方法 是不够的。 在一项由美国国立卫生研究院资助的赠款中， 儿童健康和人类发展，Golinkoff和Hirsh- Pasek（1981）提出了一种新的语言理解程序 它允许对语言能力进行敏感的评估， 婴儿实验对象的反应微乎其微 本项目旨在实现三个具体目标： (1)来证明我们语言的重要性 婴儿语言评估的理解范式 小儿脑瘫的治疗方法有哪些？ 对不同语言子类型的细粒度分析， 脑性瘫痪患者 这个项目将帮助我们开始 区分那些患有运动性生产的人 （3）有较深语言缺陷的人;以及 评估不同的运动限制对大脑的影响， 对语言关系类的出现感到麻痹， 空间术语 这个项目将告诉我们的理论， 行动和认知，它将证明， 可以对残疾儿童进行敏感和可靠的评估。 视乎这项计划的结果，我们会继续推行 开发一个实际的评估工具。 后再采取 然而，在这一步中，我们必须记录 脑性麻痹儿童的例子。

Language comprehension provides a better index of burgeoning linguistic skill than does language production. Until 1982, however, the methods used to assess language comprehension were inadequate. In a grant funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Golinkoff and Hirsh- Pasek (1981) developed a new language comprehension procedure which permits sensitive assessment of linguistic abilities with minimal responses on the part of infant subjects. The present project is designed to accomplish 3 specific aims: (1) To demonstrate the significance of our language comprehension paradigm for the linguistic assessment of infants and young children with cerebral palsy; (2) to permit a more fine-grained analysis of different linguistic subtypes within the cerebral palsy population. This project will help us begin to differentiate those who suffer from motorically based production deficits from those who have deeper linguistic deficits; and (3) to assess the effects of the diverse motor limitations in cerebral palsy on the emergence of linguistic relational classes such as spatial terms. This project will inform our theories about the link between action and cognition and it will demonstrate that young handicapped children can be sensitively and reliably assessed. Contingent upon the outcome of this project, we will pursue the development of an actual assessment instrument. Before taking that step, however, it is essential that we document the utility of this paradigm for the cerebral palsied child.