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Lescht, Erica; Venker, Courtney E.; McHaney, Jacie R.; Bohland, Jason W.; Hampton Wray, Amanda – Topics in Language Disorders, 2022
Language skills have long been posited to be a factor contributing to developmental stuttering. The current study aimed to evaluate whether novel word recognition, a critical skill for language development, differentiated children who stutter from children who do not stutter. Twenty children who stutter and 18 children who do not stutter, aged 3-8…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Young Children, Word Recognition, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Gillon, Gail; McNeill, Brigid; Denston, Amanda; Scott, Amy; Macfarlane, Angus – Topics in Language Disorders, 2020
This study investigated the response to class-wide phonological awareness and oral language teaching for 40 children who entered school with speech and language difficulties. A stepped wedge research design was adopted to compare the immediate impact of the 10-week teacher-led instruction. The progress of the children with speech and language…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Phonological Awareness, Oral Language, Speech Impairments
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Terry, J. Michael; Jackson, Sandra C.; Evangelou, Evangelos; Smith, Richard L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
This study tests the extent to which giving credit for African American English (AAE) responses on a General American English sentence imitation test mitigates dialect effects. Forty-eight AAE-speaking second graders completed the Recalling Sentences subtest of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition (1995). A Bayesian…
Descriptors: Sentences, Black Dialects, Markov Processes, Syntax