LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION IN THE CEREBRAL PALSIED CHILD

语言理解能力提供了一个更好的发展指标 语言技能比语言产出更重要。直到1982年， 然而，用于评估语言理解的方法 是不够的。在由美国国立卫生研究院资助的一笔赠款中 儿童健康和人类发展，Golinkoff和Hirsh- Pasek(1981)发展了一种新的语言理解程序 允许对语言能力进行敏感的评估 婴儿受试者的反应最小。 本项目旨在实现3个具体目标： (1)展示我们的语言的重要性 婴幼儿语言评估的理解范式 和脑性瘫痪的幼儿；(2)允许更多的 中不同语言子类型的细粒度分析 脑性瘫痪人群。这个项目将帮助我们开始 区分那些遭受以汽车为基础的生产的人 语言缺陷较深的人的缺陷；以及(3) 评估不同运动限制对脑功能的影响 对语言关系类出现的瘫痪，如 空间术语。 这个项目将告诉我们关于 行动和认知，它将证明年轻的 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 开发一种实际的评估工具。在服用之前 然而，在这一步中，我们必须记录该实用程序 脑瘫儿童的这一范例。

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.