Aphasia in Children
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aphasic " boys and girls. Seven of these were dumb and totally deaf to speech before receiving education by special methods. The three others suffered from gross defects of speech and language. In only one instance was there any history of injury or serious illness. Since the usual tests for hearing were ineffective it was necessary to devise special tests of hearing. The most important of these were given to the ten aphasic children, 12 boys and girls attending a public elementary school for normal children, 71 pupils in a residential school for the deaf and 7 deaf and normal adults. Performance tests of intelligence were used and also reading tests after a period of education.
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دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016