The Syndrome of Stuttering

Abstract

on 'Language and Development'; Irving Sigel on 'Development Considerations of the Nursery School Experience'; and Jules Henry on 'Death Fear and Climax in Nursery School Play'.The book is definitely more suitable for psychologists than it is for simple-minded paediatricians, who will find much of it difficult to understand.For instance, Ausubel, in a section entitled 'The concrete abstract dimension of cognitive development' wrote: 'The concrete abstract dimension of -intellectual development may be divided into three qualitatively distinct developmental stages- the preoperational stage, the stage of concrete opera- tions, and the stage of abstract operations.' 'This dependence upon concrete-empirical props obviously limits his (the elementary school pupil's) ability meaningfully to group and manipulate relationships between abstractions, since he can only acquire these understandings and perform those logical operations which do not go beyond the concrete and particularized representation of reality in his use of props.'Mrs. Lili Peller's contribution is a psychoanalytical account of language development.Some ignorant paediatricians, like the writer, will find her explanations difficult to follow.She wrote 'Through the highly