Language Skills and Investigating their Occurrences in Male and Female Mentally Retarded Students Based on TOLD-P:3

Document Type : Original Article

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Ph.D. student in linguistics, Isfahan university
Abstract
This study is aimed to compare language skills and find their occurrences in male and female mentally retarded students based on TOLD-P:3. 14 students ( 8 male ones and 6 female ones) aged from 6 to 9 years old were selected and TOLD-P:3 was administered to them. The design of the study is comparative. To analyze data,   the Multivariate Analysis of variance was used. The results showed that there was not a significant difference between male and female mentally retarded students based on TOLD-P:3. The students had the highest score on picture vocabulary and the lowest score on relational vocabulary.

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