Book Review: The Social World of Children Learning to Talk B. Hart & T. R. Risley,Baltimore: Brookes,1999,301 pp.,paperback,$22.00

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Hart, B.M. , Reynolds, N.J. , Baer, D.M. , Brawley, E.R. , & Harris, F.R. (1968). Effects of contingent and noncontingent social reinforcement on the cooperative play of a preschool child. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1, 73-76.

Hart, B. , & Risley, T.R. (1968). Establishing use of descriptive adjectives in the spontaneous speech of disadvantaged preschool children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1, 109-120.

Hart, B. , & Risley, T.R. (1975). Incidental teaching of language in preschool. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 8, 411-420.

Hart, B. , & Risley, T.R. (1989). The longitudinal study of interactive systems . Education and Treatment of Children, 12, 347-358.

Hart, B. , & Risley, T.R. (1992). American parenting of language-learning children: Persisting differences in family-child interactions observed in natural home environments. Developmental Psychology, 28, 1096-1105.

Hart, B. , & Risley, T.R. (1995). Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American children. Baltimore: Brookes.

Hart, B. , & Risley, T.R. (1999). The social world of children learning to talk . Baltimore: Brookes.

Kaiser, A.P. , Yoder, P.J. , & Keetz, A. (1992). Evaluating milieu teaching. In S. F. Warren & J. Reichle (Eds.), Causes and effects in communication and language intervention (pp. 9-47). Baltimore: Brookes.

MacDonald, J.D. (1985). Language through conversation: A model for intervention with language-delayed persons. In S. F. Warren & A. K. Rogers-Warren (Eds.), Teaching functional language (pp. 89-122). Austin, TX: PRO-ED.

Risley, T.R. , Hart, B. , & Doke, L.A. (1971). Operant language development: The outline of a therapeutic technology. In R. L. Schiefelbusch (Ed.), Language of the mentally retarded (pp. 107-123). Baltimore: University Park Press.

Risley, T.R. , & Wolf, M.M. (1967). Establishing functional speech in echolalic children . Behavior Research and Therapy, 5, 73-88.

Warren, S.F. , & Kaiser, A.P. (1988). Research in early language intervention. In S. L. Odom & M. B. Karnes (Eds.), Early intervention for infants and children with handicaps (pp. 89-108). Baltimore: Brookes .