By Andrew Skurka
Ideal long-distance hiker Andrew Skurka stocks his genuinely-earned wisdom during this crucial consultant to backpacking equipment and talents. defined through nationwide Geographic as "one of the easiest traveled and quickest hikers at the planet," and named "Adventurer of the Year" by way of outdoor and "Person of the Year" by means of Backpacker, Skurka recounts what he's realized from greater than 30,000 miles of long-distance adventures, such a lot lately a 4,700-mile 6-month loop round Alaska and Canada's Yukon.
Whether you're a first-time backpacker, an occasional weekend warrior or a pro long-distance trekker, you'll love this consultant. study precisely what you must hold -- either in your again and among your ears -- for all seasons and situations via a show-and-tell of garments, shoes, backpacks, take care of and sleep structures, and extra, in addition to via specified articles strolling care, campsite choice and mountain climbing potency. Skurka's functional and useful suggestions provide you with all of the instruments and strategies you'll have to hit the path.
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Leonard’s account assumes that this presents a challenge to the limited processing capacity of the child with SLI. As a result, Leonard predicts that children with SLI will have more difficulty with unstressed morphological markers, such as plurals and verb agreement markings, than their language-matched peers (Leonard, 1994; Leonard, Eyer, Bedore, & Grela, 1997; Rice, 1994). Linguistic Deficit Accounts. , in “universal grammar”). , 1995; Rice & Oetting, 1993; Rice & Wexler, 1996) hypothesizes that SLI is attributable to missing or aberrant elements of universal grammar in the child’s linguistic endowment that will interfere with the acquisition of morphological features such as those for number, tense, gender, animacy, or aspect.
Ten toddlers who had at least one sibling (or one parent) diagnosed with language impairment and a comparison group of 10 agemates with no such family history were compared in their language and nonverbal abilities. Toddlers with positive family history for language problems had somewhat lower receptive and expressive language scores and lower cognitive ability scores than agemates with no such family history. 5 SDs below age level, whereas no children in the other group performed this poorly. CHAPTER 1—LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT IN YOUNG CHILDREN 21 Three Major Theoretical Accounts of SLI Three major accounts have dominated theorizing regarding the etiology of SLI: perceptual deficit accounts, linguistic deficit accounts, and the normal distribution account.
1989) found that the items twitches, accident prone, and clumsy on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), (Achenbach, 1991), discriminated between the children with language impairments and the typically developing children. , 1989). They reported that children who had poor language abilities also had the lowest scores on measures of visual-motor integration. The studies reviewed here show that some children with SLI are deficient in motor and/or visual-motor skills. The neuromotor deficits reported in children with language impairments provide support for the hypothesis that SLI is related to a more general neurodevelopmental problem, at least in some children (Tallal, 1988).