{"id":92,"date":"2006-10-07T19:15:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/gift_of_gab\/"},"modified":"2006-10-07T19:15:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T19:15:47","slug":"gift_of_gab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/language\/gift_of_gab\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift of Gab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=146,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/zoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"136\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/zoo.jpg\" title=\"Zoo\" alt=\"Zoo\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>While reading about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Williams_syndrome\">Willams syndrome<\/a>, I found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasw.org\/finn\/ws.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One thing [Salk Institute neurolinguist Ursula] Bellugi has documented is the peculiar richness of the Williams child&#8217;s vocabulary. For example, when she asked a child with Down syndrome to name all the animals he could think of, the reply was &quot;Dogs, cats, fish, bird, fish.&quot; A Williams child of the same age and IQ answered, &quot;Brontosaurus, tyranadon, brontasaurus rex, dinosaurs, elephant, dog, cat, lion, baby hippopotamus, ibex, whale, bull, yak, zebra, puppy, kitten, tiger, koala, dragon.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If I ever build a zoo I will hire a zoo director with Williams syndrome. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading about Willams syndrome, I found this: One thing [Salk Institute neurolinguist Ursula] Bellugi has documented is the peculiar richness of the Williams child&#8217;s vocabulary. For example, when she asked a child with Down syndrome to name all the animals he could think of, the reply was &quot;Dogs, cats, fish, bird, fish.&quot; A Williams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,34,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-mind-brain","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}