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Brook Sawyer; Annemarie Hindman; Julie Smith; Carol Scheffner Hammer; Julie Santoro – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2025
Purpose: Parent engagement is a critical component of optimizing services for young children with disabilities, including those with language disorders. Without training, however, many parents may lack the knowledge and skills to effectively facilitate their children's language development during the essential early childhood years. The Parents…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Intervention, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments
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Chenausky, Karen V.; Verdes, Alison; Shield, Aaron – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Manual sign is a common alternative mode of communication taught to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Gesture use is positively related to later increases in vocabulary and syntactic complexity in typical development, but there is little evidence supporting the use of manual sign for children with CAS. We sought to identify…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Sign Language, Children, Communication Skills
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Annette Esbensen; Emily Grenner – Deafness & Education International, 2023
In this study, a narrative-based language intervention (NBLI) is evaluated in children with HL based on selected narrative outcome measures important for telling and retelling stories. Nine Danish children with slight to severe sensorineural HL in the age range of 4;11-8;8 years participated. The study had a single-arm early efficacy design. The…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Hearing Impairments, Young Children, Program Effectiveness
Keri M. Madsen; Lindsey A. Peters-Sanders; Elizabeth Spencer Kelley; R. Michael Barker; Yagmur Seven; Wendy L. Olsen; Xigrid Soto-Boykin; Howard Goldstein – Journal of Early Intervention, 2023
A cluster randomized design was used to investigate the effects of the "Story Friends" vocabulary curriculum on learning of 84 preschoolers in 24 classrooms who were at risk for language difficulties. Children in the treatment condition received explicit vocabulary instruction of 36 words during small-group storybook listening centers…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Intelligence Tests, Verbal Ability, Vocabulary
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Acosta-Rodríguez, Víctor M.; Ramírez-Santana, Gustavo M.; Hernández-Expósito, Sergio – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: There is a clear predominance of programmes aimed at improving aspects related to language production in pupils with developmental language disorder (DLD). However, programmes aimed at improving their receptive skills are limited. Aims: The main aim was to assess the effectiveness of an intervention programme for oral language…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Receptive Language
Keri M. Madsen; Lindsey A. Peters-Sanders; Elizabeth Spencer Kelley; Robert Michael Barker; Yagmur Seven; Wendy L. Olsen; Xigrid Soto-Boykin; Howard Goldstein – Grantee Submission, 2022
A cluster randomized design was used to investigate effects of the Story Friends vocabulary curriculum on learning of 84 preschoolers in 24 classrooms who were at risk for language difficulties. Children in the treatment condition received explicit vocabulary instruction of 36 words during small-group storybook listening centers with extended…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, At Risk Students
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Pauls, Laura J.; Archibald, Lisa M. D. – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2021
Background and aims: Narrative-based language intervention provides a naturalistic context for targeting overall story structure and specific syntactic goals in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Given the cognitive demands of narratives, narrative-based language intervention also has the potential to positively impact related…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Children, Preadolescents, Intervention
Spencer, Trina D.; Moran, Meghan; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Petersen, Douglas B.; Restrepo, M. Adelaida – Grantee Submission, 2020
The purpose of this cluster randomized group study was to investigate the effect of multitiered, dual language instruction on children's oral language skills, including vocabulary, narrative retell, receptive and expressive language, and listening comprehension. Participants were 3-5 year old children (n = 81) who were learning English and whose…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wilcox, M. Jeanne; Gray, Shelley; Reiser, Mark – Grantee Submission, 2019
Problem/Purpose: Young children with developmental speech and/or language impairment (DSLI) often fail to develop important oral language and early literacy skills that are foundational for subsequent schooling and reading success. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the efficacy of the TELL curriculum and associated evidence-based…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Language Skills
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Taylor, Anna Louise; Calder, Samuel David; Pogorzelski, Simmone; Koch, Lauren – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2021
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) commonly present with oral language weaknesses which disrupt the development of literacy and impede related academic progress. While there is evidence to support the delivery of manualised Tier 2 interventions with this population, little is known about the effects of Tier 1 interventions. A…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Language Impairments, Oral Language, Intervention
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Mood, Deborah; Sheldon, Rose; Tabangin, Meredith; Wiley, Susan; Meinzen-Derr, Jareen – Deafness & Education International, 2022
Children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) often demonstrate pragmatic language difficulties which can impact academic and social outcomes. This randomized control trial for DHH children, ages 3-12 years, explored the Technology-Assisted Language Intervention (TALI), incorporating augmentative and alternative communication technology (AAC)…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Children, Pragmatics
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Miguel Garcia-Salas; Carla Wood – Grantee Submission, 2024
To promote children's language development through designs that consider familial contexts, the authors explored the effectiveness of a dialogic reading intervention customized for older siblings in immigrant Latino families. The dialogic reading intervention, developed with components of training, modeling, and coaching, systematically supported…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Siblings, Hispanic Americans, Immigrants
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Kishida, Yuriko; Kemp, Coral – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
An AB single case design was used to measure the effect of data-based feedback for 6 children in a listening and spoken language early intervention (EI) programme in Australia. Changes in the number of parent-child conversational turns following feedback were measured using an automated language environment analysis system. The perceived value and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Hearing Impairments, Early Intervention
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Murphy, Aoife; Franklin, Sue; Breen, Annemarie; Hanlon, Molly; McNamara, Aoife; Bogue, Aine; James, Emily – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2017
Young people from areas of socioeconomic disadvantage (SED) are more likely to present with language difficulties, particularly vocabulary difficulties. Studies have shown the effectiveness of vocabulary interventions for children with language impairment but not for adolescents from areas of SED. This article aims to establish the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Secondary School Students
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Anna D. Johnson; Anne Partika; Anne Martin; Ian Lyons; Sherri Castle; Deborah A. Phillips; The Tulsa SEED Study Team – AERA Open, 2024
Public preschool boosts academic skills in kindergarten, but little is known about whether that boost lasts to third grade because many studies stop directly assessing children after kindergarten. The current study tests for sustained associations between preschool attendance and an array of repeatedly measured, directly assessed language and math…
Descriptors: Public Education, Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education, Predictor Variables
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