COMMUNICATION OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL RETARDATION

该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智力迟钝者中， 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，以及增加人类的方式， 在社会背景下使用（并且可以被教授）语言。 该计划是利用我们不断发展的研究方法来澄清 几个关键通信问题的发展历史： 1.分类，包括个体差异的收购， 性能和保留。 2.从自然手势到符号化，以及从非语言 概念到语言 3.口头调解解决问题。 4.推广和转让，包括促进 去语境化 问题一，分类，被纳入六个项目中的每一个， 研究计划的统一焦点。 问题二、三、四是 这也是获得沟通能力的关键。 最后一 三个问题是沟通发展的领域， 类别被映射。 在这些组织问题中，我们使用方法 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.