Selected aspects of mother-child interaction are discussed with initial consideration given to the evidence regarding the emergence of conversational exchanges between normally developing language-learning children and their mothers. The results of a preliminary investigation in the area of mother-child interaction involving the clinical population of language-disordered children are presented. The research results are discussed in terms of the remediation process.
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