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Article: The Emory Dyssemia Index: a brief screening instrument for the identification of nonverbal language deficits in elementary school children.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
- Author:
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NOWICKI AND DUKE (1992; in press) have suggested that there can be receptive and expressive nonverbal language equivalents to receptive and expressive verbal language deficits. They have referred to nonverbal language deficits as dyssemias, or difficulties in the effective and accurate use of signs. Nowicki and Duke have proposed that, rather than the lowered academic performance usually associated with verbal language deficits, personal problems (low self-esteem and self-concept, high anxiety and depression, and external locus of control) and social problems (unpopularity and social maladjustment) are likely to be related to nonverbal processing difficulties.
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