The ability of school-age, language-impaired children to respond when faced with a communicative obstacle was investigated. 18 language-impaired children were compared to 2 control groups, age-mates and language-mates. Language-impaired differed from both controls. They communicated more effectively than younger language-mates and less effectively than age-mates.
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