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Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia; Fey, Marc E.; Bredin-Oja, Shelley L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: This study examined sentence comprehension in children with specific language impairment (SLI) in a manner designed to separate the contribution of cognitive capacity from the effects of syntactic structure. Method: Nineteen children with SLI, 19 typically developing children matched for age (TD-A), and 19 younger typically developing…
Descriptors: Sentences, Comprehension, Language Impairments, Children
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Riches, Nick G. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
This study taught the passive to two children with specific language impairment (aged 8;1 and 8;2). It employed usage-based principles including "constructional grounding"; using short structures as the basis for acquiring long structures, and "construction conspiracy"; encouraging analogies between partially overlapping…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Language Skills, Intervention