Studies of children with different intellectual capabilities and their language development has found that:
A. children with intellectual disabilities never achieve typical levels of language ability
B. children can have different levels of skill in their linguistic and cognitive abilities, showing that the two are partially independent.
C. there is no relationship between linguistic and cognitive abilities in development.
D. linguistic and cognitive abilities always track together in development so that children's level of ability is always very similar in both areas.
Question 2
Studies of phonological development in children who are blind have found that :
A. they develop their phonological systems more quickly than sighted children because of their heightened auditory skills.
B. they are delayed in their production of vowels, but not in their production of consonant sounds.
C. they are somewhat delayed in producing sounds that have highly distinctive visible components such as /b/, /m/, and /f/.
D. they develop their phonological systems at the same rate as sighted children do.
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