An language intervention program was designed for a four year old delayed language boy with autistic tendency. Although the boy had neither any comprehension nor any expression of words except immediate echolalia at the initial assessment, he progressed relatively rapidly through the intervention program, focused on language comprehension of early words to 3-word-sentences, and also facilitated his communicative behavior. On the other hand, it was observed his language acquisition process was deviated somewhat from normal one. For example, verbal comprehension of colour names and number words was acquired through written materials. Furthermore, a number of problems such as the difficulty of answering to questions and poor development of language function still remained. Taking these results into consideration, the language intervention program and the characteristics of the language acquisition process of the boy are discussed.

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Cerebral palsied children are considered to have a delay in the development of the concept of body, e. g. body concept, because of their physical disabilities from birth, This is a report of a survey made on 39 lower-grade elementary school children who were all in special schools for the physically handicapped. Each subject was tested and evaluated in order to obtain the developmental level of body concept, the degree of physical disabilities, the past training history, and the vocabulary age (VA).
The main findings are as follows:
a) The development of body concept in the cerebral palsied children is significantly correlated with the development of VA, but not chronological age (CA) nor the degree of physical disabilities,
b) There is a positively significant correlation between the development of body concept and the history of very early training up to one year of age.
c) A survey of 120 normal children (Yuge, 1980) using the same method as this study showed that normal children develop the body concept rapidly from two to three years of age and almost complete its development between the ages of four to five. However, there is no developmental trend observed among the cerebral palsied in regard to their CA nor VA, which may be due to too scattered scores of those variables.

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In order to investigate to what extent aphasic patients can improve through language therapy, a long term follow-up is necessary. For this purpose two groups of aphasic patients were chosen for the study: (A) Five patients who received therapy for more than ten months, but whose therapy began a year or more after onset which occurred at least three or more years ago; (B) Eight patients who have received therapy for more than three years since onset.
Their recovery processes were evaluated by their total scores as well as their modality scores on SLTA. the main results are as follows:
1) Every case showed marked improvement for the first 12 months of the therapy regardless of the time elapsed since onset.
2) In group (B), although every case showed a stagnant period starting around the twelfth month of the therapy, they all still showed some improvement which was slower than the improvement seen within the first year after onset.
From these findings the following might be suggested:
1) It seems effective to continue language therapy at least for three years after onset.
2) Regardless of the time passed since onset, language therapy is advisable for every aphasic patient.

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This paper discusses the relation between aphasic patiens' memory span and syntactic comprehensive ability. The subjects were 15 Broca's, 15 Wernicke's aphasics and 10 non-brain-damaged adults. They performed a verbal memory span test and an auditory comprehension test, the latter consisting of two tests. The stimuli of the first test of auditory comprehension were designed to examine the quantity of information which each subject could process, They had the same grammatical structure but varied in length. Those of the second were constructed to examine the quality of information which each subject could process. Thy had the same length but different grammatical structures.
The results showed the following:
a) Aphasic patients' verbal memory span was significantly reduced when compared with the control group's.
b) Aphasic patients who retained more verbal items could comprehend longer sentences.
c) There was no relation between aphasic patients' ability to retain more verbal items and their ability to comprehend more difficult grammatical structures.
Consequently we suggest that capacity to retain many words is advantageous to the quantitative aspect of processing information, but it does not have any influence on the qualitative aspect of processing information.

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One speech disorder due to organic lesions of the brain quite different from aphasia and dysarthria is apraxia of speech as proposed by Darly, et al. (1975). This case report discusses the evaluation and therapy of a patient assumed to have almost solely apraxia of speech.
The patient studied is a 51 year old, right-handed male who suffered from cerebral thrombosis that caused a slight hemiplegia on the right III, IV, V fingers. Within one month after the onset he had no positive indications of aphasia, dysarthria, or other factors except possible apraxia of speech. His WAIS verbal IQ was 107 (by written response) and performance IQ was 112. However, no intentional speech was observed. After receiving four months of systematic therapy based on the programs of MIT and one for apraxia of speech by Darley, et al., the patient showed disturbances only in the prosody in his speech.
The clinical features of this case limited to inconsistent substitution of sound and slight influence in the performance of phonograms (kanas), dysprosody, and searching behavior are consistent with the characteristics of apraxia of speech previously reported by Darley, et al. (1975).

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In spite of the patients' recognition of retarded speech, the patient' s severe hearing impairment was not diangnosed until she was five years of age.
Intensive acoupedic training was conducted for three years. The analysis of syntactic development was made based on speech data obtained between 7 and 9 years of age.
For comparison, similar data taken from another hard of hearing sample which had begun a systematic acoupedic training from an early age.
The main results were as follows:
1) Even though intensive acoupedic training was conducted, once the hard of hearing child passed the period of optimal language acquisition, very limited syntactic development was observed compared with the level reached by a normal hearing child.
2) Frequency of the use of incomplete sentences during speech was remarkably high: about one half of all spoken sentences in the 9th year evaluation were incomplete.
3) Lack of function words or predicate sentences, and misuse of the meaning of words characterized this patient's speech. Relatively frequent inversion of sentences was another characteristic. It was very difficult for her to aquire function words, conjunctions, and adverbs.
4) The patient's difficulty in acquisition of abstract concepts was found to be the same as that seen in the hard of hearing child whose training started much earlier.

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