This intriguing, thought-provoking book is must reading for all who are responsible for the evaluation and treatment of blind children as well as for child language theorists and researchers… Language and Experience is a fascinating book… It offers creative ways for evaluating some specific aspects of language knowledge in blind children, and it forces us to rethink how language is acquired. It also provides hope for parents of blind children by suggesting that their children can develop normal language abilities.
-- Carol Westby American Speech and Hearing Association Journal
Landau and Gleitman have tried to provide a fresh approach to the issue of child language acquisition. I believe they have been very successful. With common sense and from a scholarly perspective of past theories they confront some of the most basic questions. In addition, by carrying out a long term investigative project they have tried to meet the empirical demands of psychological research which unwittingly, or with prejudice, have often been ignored in research with the blind.
-- Linda Pring Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Language and Experience poses many interesting philosophical questions concerning the relation of sensory experience to language development and is well worth reading.
-- A. Warren-Leubecker Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography
A stimulating book, both in its description of language learning by blind children and in its interpretation of these finds relevant to language theory… This work should stimulate further consideration and study of language development in both impaired and nonimpaired children.
-- D. V. Allen Choice