Across
- 3. the educational practice of integrating handicapped students into regular classrooms rather than placing them in segregated special education classes; also called mainstreaming
- 4. a single-word utterance used by an infant that represents an entire sentence's worth of meaning
- 5. a conversational tactic used by adults in speaking to young children in which they respond to a child's utterance with a more grammatically complete expression of the same thought
- 6. rules specifying how words can be combined to form meaningful sentences in a language
- 7. the young child's tendency to use a word to refer to a wider set of objects, actions, or events than adults do
- 8. one of the basic units of sound used in a particular spoken language
- 10. the aspect of language centering on meanings
- 11. the process by which information processing becomes effortless and highly efficient as a result of continued practice or increased expertise
- 13. the ability to produce novel responses or works
- 14. an early form of vocalization that involves repeating vowel-like sounds
- 15. serious difficulties learning to read in children who have normal intellectual ability and no sensory impairments or emotional difficulties that could account for their learning problems
- 16. a symbolic system in which a limited number of signals can be combined according to rules to produce an infinite number or messages
- 18. teaching children of different racial/ethnic backgrounds in the same classroom
- 19. an early form of vocalization that appears between 4 and 6 months of age and involves repeating consonant-vowel combinations such as "baba" or "dadada"
- 20. the basic units of meaning that exist in a word
Down
- 1. the young child's tendency to use general words to refer to a smaller set of objects, actions, or events than adults do
- 2. the possession of unusually high general intellectual potential or of special abilities in such areas as creativity, mathematics, or the arts
- 8. rules specifying how language is to be used appropriately in different social contexts to achieve goals
- 9. the ability to use printed information to function in society, achieve goals, and develop potential
- 11. a language disorder
- 12. the overgeneralization of observed grammatical rules to irregular cases to which the rules do not apply
- 17. a combination of rich factual knowledge about life and procedural knowledge such as strategies for giving advice and handling conflicts