Innovative and effective assessment and intervention materials for language disorders are acutely needed in special education and bilingual education. This paper describes how microcomputer courseware can be developed to provide interactive receptive language testing and training materials for the bilingual, language-handicapped child. A description of a prototype program which has been used to both test and train language impaired children is provided.
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