Word: benasich
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...sounds and file them away in phonic bins. If language-impaired children never perceive ba and da as different, then they may form mental magnets that file these sounds into the same broad category, seriously undermining their ability to group sounds into words and sentences later on. Indeed, believes Benasich, the ability to make fine acoustic distinctions is one of the pilings on which language is built. "If the pilings are rickety," she says, "then language is not going to develop as well...
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