Patterns of language performance in educable mentally retarded children.
Forty-one familial educable mentally retarded children were given 12 language tasks measuring comprehension, formulation, and repetition at the semantic, syntactic, and phonologic levels of language. Through the Q technique of factor analysis, six language patterns, derived from positive and negative loadings on three factors, emerged. The six patients of language performance revealed that these mentally retarded children did not perform the same across all language dimensions. Their language performance demonstrated different patterns of strengths and weaknesses among the tasks relative to their overall performance.
D002648:Child; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D007802:Language; D010699:Phonation