也许羊羊根本不用看语言医生呀

来源: haha 于 2006-03-24 10:14:58 [] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 阅读数 : (4035 bytes)

根据乔姆斯基的理论，羊羊一定会“不讲则以，一讲惊人”的。 心理语言学家的研究表明，说话早晚与后来的语言掌握程度相关性不大，说话晚的孩子往往一开始就与说话早的孩子在同一水平上。

还有呀，爱因斯坦说话就很晚呐。 羊羊那么聪明，说不准就是个小爱因斯坦吧。 下面的供参考：

The Einstein syndrome

A third possible outcome has also been identified for children with significant delays in expressive language development. Some children display unusually precocious intellectual development but are very late in learning to talk. Professor Thomas Sowell has coined the term the Einstein Syndrome to identify these children because Albert Einstein displayed these characteristics as a child, as did other physicists (Edward Teller, Richard Feynman) and musicians (Arthur Rubinstein and Clara Schumann). In an earlier age these children were often diagnosed as retarded (Einstein), and in our own age as developmentally impaired.

Two studies have examined late-talking children who in other respects seem exceptionally bright. The first was conducted by Thomas Sowell of Stanford University (1997) and included 46 children. The second was conducted by Stephen Camarata of Vanderbilt University (2000) and included 239 children. The results of both studies are reported and discussed in Professor Sowell's book The Einstein Syndrome (Sowell, 2001).

These children developed language at a significantly late age, but display many other remarkable talents. In both studies more than half the children were three and a half years-old before they made their first multi-word statement. In one study most children were four before they completed a sentence. In the other study complete sentences came for most of the children by age five.



Some characteristics of these children were remarkably consistent. Boys represented 87 and 89 percent of the children in the two studies. Both studies showed a high level of analytical abilities in these children. Most excel in putting puzzles together as toddlers. Parents rated these children as unusually good at solving puzzles (67 percent in the first and 46 percent in the second study). Similarly parents rated the children as having an extremely good memory (56 and 52 percent of children). Some parents described their children's memory as "truly unbelievable." These children were also particularly attracted to computers and music. In the larger study 86 percent of the preschoolers liked computers and 97 percent liked music.

Family patterns also emerged in the two studies. The vast majority of biological children had a close family member in an analytical occupation (engineer, scientist, or mathematician). Musicians were also prominent in the families of these children. At least one close relative played a musical instrument in 75 percent and 78 percent of the biological families in the two studies. Only 4 and 7 percent of the children respectively in the two studies did not have a close relative who either had an analytical occupation or was a musician. Parents of these children also tended to have a high level of education. Nearly 60 percent of parents in one study and 71 percent of parents in the other had completed at least 4 years of college.

Professor Sowell cautions parents about labeling these late-talking children and the tendency of professionals to misdiagnose them based on their refusal to perform tasks, their disinterest in tests, and their low scores on language assessment instruments. These children may have specific intense interests, and a lack of concern about other topics such as talking. Einstein for example had tremendous talent in mathematics, but nearly failed out of school because of his disinterest in other subjects. Rubinstein began playing the piano at age three, but would not say a single word. By age four he could play complicated pieces on the piano after hearing them played once, evidence of the unusually proficient memory of these late-talking, gifted children.

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