At 11:29 AM 2/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Mike Gerber has tracked out some of this.
> See for example M. Gerber, V. Perelman, and N. Lopez-Reyna. 1991.
>Assessment and Evaluation of Exceptional Children in the Soviet Union.
>International Review of Research on Mental Retardation 17: 117-151.
>
>He also gave us a more informal account in class. I will cc this to him
>to see whether he wants to add anything.
>
>On the issue of meaningful utterance within activity as the condition of
>language learning, you might look at chapters 2 & 3 of Fundamentals of
>Defectology. Also chapter 2 of van der Veer and Valsiner Vygotsky Reader,
>"Principles of social education for deaf and dumb children in Russia"
>goes over some of this ground.
>
>Chuck
>
> On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Ellice A Forman wrote:
>
>> I've always wondered how much this work influenced special education in
>> the Soviet Union after Vygotsky's death. Does anyone know?
>>
>> I'm surprised that you found something on "word meaning" as a unit of
>> analysis that brings it closer to Bakhtin's notion of utterance. I'll have
>> to check that out for myself.
>>
>