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Behaviour problems associated with lack of speech in people with learning disabilities
Author(s) -
Bott C.,
Farmer R.,
Rohde J.
Publication year - 1997
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.1365-2788.1997.tb00671.x
Subject(s) - learning disability , psychology , set (abstract data type) , developmental psychology , population , cognitive psychology , stress (linguistics) , medicine , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , environmental health , programming language
It has been observed in a population of people with learning disabilities that people with good understanding but no spech have significantly more behaviour problems than those with good speech. This observation was confirmed by testing a data set of 3662 people. The purpose of the study was to stress the importance of teaching communication techniques as early as possible in order to pre‐empt behaviour problems.