Comments for Language Fix http://languagefix.wordpress.com Distributing Language Learning Information To All Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Hart-Risley 30 Million Word Gap Study – 1995 by Sarah http://languagefix.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/4-the-hart-risley-30-million-word-gap-study/#comment-694 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:42:33 +0000 http://languagefix.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-694 2150 words per hour = 35.8 words per minute = .6 words per second

]]> Comment on Roger Brown’s Stages – 1973 by Caroline Bowen http://languagefix.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/3-roger-browns-stages/#comment-364 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:57:31 +0000 http://languagefix.wordpress.com/?p=233#comment-364 Paul, Brown’s Stages are now here:

http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33:brownsstages&catid=11:admin&Itemid=108

Could you email me please?
Caroline Bowen

]]> Comment on Language Deficits of Mental Retardation and TBI by Total Development http://languagefix.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/language-deficits-of-mental-retardation-and-tbi/#comment-359 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:24:59 +0000 http://languagefix.wordpress.com/?p=487#comment-359 Informative article, totally what I needed.

]]> Comment on Individual versus Group Testing by ghayas http://languagefix.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/individual-versus-group-testing/#comment-351 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:41:59 +0000 http://languagefix.wordpress.com/?p=920#comment-351 i needed a same good notes about OB plz

]]> Comment on About by Jill Foley http://languagefix.wordpress.com/about/#comment-346 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:25:01 +0000 #comment-346 Hi, Dr. Morris.

Thank you for the wonderful content on your blog!

I am seeking special education teachers to respond to a very short survey related to picture-supported text. The purpose of this survey is to help my company determine whether there is a viable market for expanding our differentiated literacy program, Achieve3000, to include picture supports. (I have shared this link with dozens of special education teachers, but we only have 7 respondents so far and we need more input. I am hoping this note might be able to help elicit more feedback from your readers. I would appreciate it if you could take a couple of minutes to respond to it as well.)

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I would really appreciate your help with this! Thank you so much,

Jill

Jill Foley
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]]> Comment on The Hart-Risley 30 Million Word Gap Study – 1995 by Rosevita http://languagefix.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/4-the-hart-risley-30-million-word-gap-study/#comment-332 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:20:02 +0000 http://languagefix.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-332 It seems this study is being interpreted differently. Does a child from academic family hear 2,150 words per hour, as the initial post states, or do they possess a 2,150 vocabulary? If so, how is “knowing vocabulary” assessed?
2,150 words per hour equals 350 words per minute or close to six words per second. Unlikely even for intellectuals to accomplish that.
So, if the number is for vocabulary, what age are we talking about? Three year olds?

@ Chris P
>>We simply do not know how important repetition and breadth of vocabulary is to cognitive development.<<
This is not true. We do know that the brain needs repetition to create automaticity for words, and it is obvious that breadth of vocabulary has a direct relation to cognitive development. It's its foundation!

]]> Comment on Should Children Watch TV? by Get free TV on your phone now http://languagefix.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/should-children-watch-tv/#comment-322 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:31:16 +0000 http://languagefix.wordpress.com/?p=846#comment-322 Wow man, what an awesome blog. Keep up the nice work!

]]> Comment on Research Rehash – Albert Bandura by lil http://languagefix.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/research-rehash-albert-bandura-bobo-dolls-and-learning/#comment-284 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:26:23 +0000 http://languagefix.wordpress.com/?p=426#comment-284 Wow!!

]]> Comment on About by Jennifer Little http://languagefix.wordpress.com/about/#comment-262 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:09:14 +0000 #comment-262 As an ex-teacher of special education students, I found language skills to be the most critical ones to be developed so the child could have academic success. Everything in school depends on adequate language, but it is an area that is completely ignored by the standards that now drive education.

Now that I’m no longer teaching, I’ve developed a website to help parents help their children succeed in school. I also would appreciate a link-back to my site: http://www.parentsteachkids.com where I also have a blog that addresses many different issues.

]]> Comment on Cognitive Referencing by Jennifer Little http://languagefix.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/cognitive-referencing/#comment-261 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:01:27 +0000 http://languagefix.wordpress.com/?p=964#comment-261 When relying on an IQ test for identifying students with learning difficulties, we must also remember that the test itself is language-based (unless a Leiter is requested, but that takes special training and is significantly more expensive to administer). Children with language deficits will always score below what their true IQ is because their oral language skills are their weaknesses. That is one reason that there are verbal and performance sub-tests that on Wechslers that allow refined discrepancies.

A separate problem, in part related to the “color” issue of students who usually come from lower income homes, is that language skills are different in the lower SES homes. Language has a function, as a tool, to accomplish what is needed or to entertain and deliver renditions of events, often non-sequentially. In middle and upper middle class SES homes, language is descriptive and serves to embellish above and beyond the function. Vocabulary is more varied and experiences have been broader.

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