COMMUNICATION OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL RETARDATION

这一建议侧重于交际能力和表现。 在年龄和智力水平差异很大的精神发育迟滞人群中 发展。该项目应提供有助于 心理语言学、认知和行为理论的整合 语言，以及增加对人类 在社会环境中使用(并且可以教授)语言。 我们的计划是使用我们正在开发的研究方法来澄清 几个关键沟通问题的发展历史： 1.分类，包括习得的个体差异， 性能和保留率。 2.从自然的手势到象征，从非语言的进步 从概念到语言。 3.解决问题的口头调解。 4.推广和移交，包括促进 去语境化。 第一个问题--分类--被纳入六个项目中的每一个项目 这是研究计划的统一重点。问题二、三和四是 在获得沟通能力方面也至关重要。最后 三个问题是交际发展的领域， 类别已映射。在这些组织问题中，我们使用方法 这源于行为分析、认知和心理语言学理论。

This proposal focuses on the communicative competence and performance among persons with mental retardation of widely varying ages and levels of development. The project should provide data that can contribute to an integration of psycholinguistic, cognitive, and behavioral theory about language, as well as adding to the knowledge of the ways in which humans use (and can be taught) language in social context. The plan is to use our developing research methodology to clarify the developmental history of several crucial communication issues: 1. Categorization, including individual differences in acquisition, performance, and retention. 2. Progression from natural gestures to symbolization, and from nonverbal concepts to language. 3. Verbal mediation of problem solving. 4. Generalization and transfer, including the facilitation of decontextualization. Issue one, categorization, is integrated into each of the six projects as a unifying focus for the research program. Issues two, three and four are also crucial in the acquisition of communication competencies. The last three issues are domains of communicative development into which categories are mapped. Within these organizing issues, we use methods that stem from behavior-analytic, cognitive, and psycholinguistic theory.