Gender differences in the language concerning the children with mental impairment

摘要

In the specialised literature, most studies have analysed language by relating it to the level of intellectual development and the quality of educational influences. We believe that the specificity of the language used by mentally deficient children may be fully elucidated only by considering of the two references above. We have studied aspects concerning language productivity, the quality of expression and verbal coherence, we have analysed the comprehension capacity and the possibility of using the information accumulated so that, in the end, we could be able elaborate a language development program adapted to the gender of the subjects.