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Alpert, C., & Rogers-Warren, A. (1983, March). Mothers as incidental language trainers of their language disordered children. Paper presented at the Gatlinberg Conference on Developmental Disabilities, Gatlinberg, TN.

Barnett, W. , Escobar, C. , & Ravesten, S. (1988). The economics of early intervention for handicapped children: What do we really know? Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 12, 169–182.

Bloom, L. , & Lahey, M. (1978). Language development and language disorders. New York: John Wiley.

Brinton, B. , & Fujiki, M. (1982). A comparison of request-response sequences in the discourse of normal and language-disordered children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 47, 57–63.

Brown, R. (1975). A first language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Conti-Ramsden, G. , & Friel-Patti, S. (1983). Mothers' discourse adjustments to language impaired and non-language impaired children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 48, 360–367.

Cunningham, C. , Reuler, E. , Blackwell, J. , & Dick, J. (1981). Behavioral and linguistic developments in the interactions of normal and retarded children with their mothers. Child Development, 52, 62–70.

Della-Corte, M. , Benedict, H. , & Klein, D. (1983). The relationship of pragmatic dimensions of mothers' speech to the referential-expressive distinction. Journal of Child Language, 10, 35–43.

Fischel, J. , Whitehurst, G. , Caulfield, M. , & DeBaryshe, B. (In press). Language growth in children with expressive language delays. Pediatrics.

Fischer, M. (1987). Mother-child interaction in preverbal children with Down's syndrome. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 52, 2.

Girolametto, L.E. (1986). Developing dialogue skills: The effects of a conversational model of language intervention. In K. Marfo (Ed.), Mental handicap and parent-child interaction. New York: Praeger.

Horton, K. (1974). Infant intervention and language learning. In R. Scheifelbusch & L. Lloyd (Eds), Language perspectives-Acquisition, retarding and intervention (pp 469–492). Baltimore: University Park Press.

Jones, O.H.M. (1977). Mother-child communication with prelinguistic Down's syndrome and normal infants. In H.R. Schaeffer (Ed.), Studies in mother-infant interaction (pp. 379–401). London, England: Academic Press.

Kaye, K. , & Charney, R. (1981). Conversational asymmetry between mothers and children. Journal of Child Language, 8, 35–49.

Krause, E. (1982). Mother-child interactions with nonretarded and mentally retarded preschoolers. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 87, 20–35.

Lasky, E. , & Klopp, K. (1982). Parent-child interactions in normal and language-disordered children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 47, 7–19.

Macdonald, J.D. , & Gillette, Y. (1984). The ECO Intervention Program Adult-Child Communication Project. Columbus: The Ohio State University, Nisonger Center and Speech and Hearing Science Department.

Macpherson, P., & Olson, M. (1980, May). Mother speech input to deficient and language normal children. Paper presented at conference on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Mahoney, G. , & Robenalt, K. (1986). A comparison of conversational patterns between mothers and their Down syndrome and normal infants. Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 10, 172–180.

Mahoney, G. , & Weller, E. (1980). An ecological approach to language intervention. In D. Bricker (Ed.), New directions for exceptional children: Language intervention with children. New York: Jossey-Bass.

Moerk, E.L. (1986). Environmental factors in early language acquisition. In G.T. Whitehurst (Ed.), Annals of Child Development (Vol. 3; pp 229–257). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Newhoff, M., Silverman, L., & Millett, A. (1980, May). Linguistic differences in parents' speech to normal and language disordered children. Paper presented at conference on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Newport, E. , Gleitman, H. , & Gleitman, L. (1977). Mother, I'd rather do it myself: Some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style. In C.E. Snow & S. Ferguson (Eds), Talking to children: Language input and acquisition (pp. 109–150). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Penner, S. (1987). Parental responses to grammatical and ungrammatical child utterances. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 58, 376.

Peterson, G. , & Sherrod, K. (1982). Relationship of maternal language to language development and language delay of children. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 86, 391–398.

Scherer, N. , & Olswang, L. (1984). Role of mothers' expansions in stimulating children's language production. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 27, 387–396.

Schwartz, R. , Chapman, K. , Terrell, B. , Prelock, P. , & Rowan, L. (1985). Facilitating word combination in language-impaired children through discourse structure. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 50, 1.

Snyder, L.K. , & Maclean, J.E. (1977). Deficient acquisition strategies: A proposed conceptual framework for analyzing severe language deficiency. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 81, 338–349.

Weistuch, L. (1982). The effects of training on maternal expectancy and language use. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Yeshiva University.

Weistuch, L. , & Byers-Brown, B. (1987). Motherese as therapy: A program and its dissemination. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 3(1), 57–71.

Weistuch, L. , & Lewis, M. (1985). The Language Interaction Intervention Project. Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, 5, 97–106.

Weistuch, L., & Lewis, M. (1986, April). Effect of maternal language intervention strategies on the language abilities of delayed two- to four-year-olds. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York.

Whitehurst, G.J. , & Vasta, R. (1985). Is language acquired through imitation? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 4, 37–39.