GOOD

DAY!!!
LANGUAGE

DEVELOPMENT AND
MENTAL RETARDATION
TALKING POINTS:
-Language Development
-Mental Retardation
-Language Development In Children With
Down Syndrome
-Language Development In Children With

Williams Syndrome
-A few Individual Case studies that have

particular relevance for this theoretical

issues.
 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

AND MENTAL RETARDATION

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

-Language is a separate capacity

-the normal learning process through the

children
-it should be some interdependence, or

dissociation,
of intelligence and language ability
 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

AND MENTAL RETARDATION

MENTAL RETARDATION

-Substantially below-average overall in

functioning by the American Psychiatric

Association
-presesnt in about 2 to 3 percent of the

population.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN

CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME

DOWN SYNDROME
Chromosomal Abnormality
Lexical Development starts late
and proceeds slowly.
Grammatical Development is
the area of language tha
is most affected
by Down Syndrome.
Communicative and pragmatic
development are the strengths
of children with Down

Syndrome
 CHARACTERISTICS FEATURES

Impaired social development

delayed and defiant language

insistence on sameness
onset before 30 months
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN

CHILDREN WITH WILLIAMS SYNDROME

WILLIAMS SYNDROME

rare disorder
has a good phonological

memory skills
Excellent Lexical Development
THE CASE STUDIES OF

INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL

RETARDATION WHO HAVE HIGH

LEVEL LANGUAGE SKILLS

EVERYONE MEET

D.H. AND
LAURA!!!
D.H. A WOMAN WITH

CHATTER BOX

SYNDROME AND A

MEASURED IQ OF 44
Her speech is fluent and

grammatically correct
Her IQ measured 44
 LAURA
“ HE WAS SAYING THAT I WAS LOST MY BATTERY POWERED WATCH THAT I LOVED”
THANK YOU!