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Dutch Journal of Applied LinguisticsVol. 3:1 (2014) ► pp.109–116
De verhalen van kinderen met een verstandelijke beperking
Een research note
Eightteen intellectually disabled children (IQ ≤ 70) between ten and twelve years old were compared with 18 typically developing children between four and six years old on their lexical productivity and their use and variety of seven word classes: verbs, conjunctions, pronouns, articles, adverbs, adjectives and prepositions. There were no significant differences between the intellectually disabled children and the typically developing children in terms of lexical productivity and vocabulary. Only the Dutch article het was used less by the intellectually disabled children. Explanations of the limited use of the article het and suggestions for language education for intellectually disabled children are discussed.
Keywords: intellectually disabled children, special needs education, narratives, child language acquisition, word classes, lexical productivity
Article language: Dutch
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