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Behaviour problems associated with lack of speech in people with learning disabilities
1Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Charing Cross and Westminter Medical School, London, England.
Abstract:
It has been observed in a population of people with learning disabilities that people with good understanding but no speech have significantly more behaviour problems than those with good speech. This observation was confirmed by testing a data set of 3662 people. The purpose of the study was to stress the importance of teaching communication techniques as early as possible in order to pre-empt behaviour problems.
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