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VERBAL CONTROL OF MOTOR BEHAVIOUR IN MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN: A RE‐EXAMINATION OF LURIA'S THEORY
Author(s) -
ROTUNDO N.,
JOHNSON E. G.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1981.tb00119.x
Subject(s) - mentally retarded , psychology , developmental psychology , etiology , mental age , motor skill , audiology , psychiatry , cognition , medicine
A battery of tasks to indicate stage membership within the Lurian theory of development of verbal control of motor behaviour was given to children whose moderate level of mental retardation derived from organic pathology, familiar conditions or Down syndrome, and to a group of normal preschool children matched for mental age. The results supported Luria's contention that the development of mentally retarded children, regardless of aetiology, is arrested at the second (asemantic) stage and that their performance deficiencies are even greater than might be predicted simply on the basis of their developmental level.