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Re: RE: New to the list
On 12/3/01 1:29 PM, quoth the effervescent Barry.Lawlor at ssa_gov at
Barry.Lawlor at ssa_gov:
>How does language improve in early to middle childhood, and what happens
>when its development is delayed? What can be done to encourage and improve
>a child's language development?
Doesn't that have almost everything to do with the part of the brain that
controls language? I've read that if a child is raised without language
(neglect, abuse, impairment, etc), that part of the brain doesn't
develop, and after, say, the age of five, it's too late.
I remember the children abandoned in Romanian orphanages suffered what
can only be classed as permanent brain damage simply because they were
never held, talked to, or in any way interacted with.
Shudder.
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