Communication of people with mental retardation
This is a current project.
Description
This multi-investigator project is a joint effort by investigators at the University of Kansas and University of Washington. Disordered or delayed communication and language development are a defining characteristic of mental retardation. Researchers believe there are “cusps” in communication and language development — an intersection in the interaction of behavior, skill, perception or motivation that is crucial to what should come next in development. Until the cusp is negotiated, development along a particular route may stop. This project hopes to show that infants, children and adults with, or at risk for, severe impairments can learn intervention strategies to negotiate specific language-development cusps.
Project Administration
Richard R. Saunders, principal investigator
Project Contact
Richard R. Saunders, Ph.D.
Life Span Institute at Parsons
rrsaun@ku.edu
(785) 864-0578 (phone)
(785) 864-7565 (fax)
Mailing Address:
1052 Dole Human Development Center
1000 Sunnyside Drive
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7555
This is a project of:
Life Span Institute at Parsons
In collaboration with:
University of Washington
Funded by:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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