Language and the developing child: Pivotal ideas of Katrina de Hirsch

J J Jansky

doi:10.1007/BF02648030

Language and the developing child: Pivotal ideas of Katrina de Hirsch

Ann Dyslexia. 1986 Jan;36(1):196-214. doi: 10.1007/BF02648030.

Author

J J Jansky¹

Affiliation

¹ Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, de Hirsch-Robinson Reading Clinic Columbia University, New York, New York.

PMID: 24243460
DOI: 10.1007/BF02648030

Abstract

This paper considers the contributions of Katrina de Hirsch to the understanding of developmental language disabilities. It focuses on subjects that especially interested her: neurophysiological immaturity, the cluttering syndrome, the prediction of reading failure, intervention, and normal language development.