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Poulain, Tanja; Brauer, Jens – First Language, 2018
This study explores the developmental change of mother-child interactions in order to investigate which aspects of maternal behavior affect children's speech production. To this end, the interactions between 79 German-speaking mothers and their two- or five-year-old children were observed at two time points (12 months apart) and in two interactive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Role, Parent Child Relationship, Predictor Variables
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Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja, Urska; Podlesek, Anja; Kranjc, Simona – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2011
According to the findings of several studies, parents' assessments of their toddler's language are valid and reliable evaluations of children's language competence, especially at early development stages. This study examined whether preschool teachers, who spend a relatively great deal of time with toddlers in various preschool activities and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Teachers, Language Acquisition, Evaluation Methods
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Bruce, Barbro; Hansson, Kristina; Nettelbladt, Ulrika – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2007
This paper explores language intervention for children with specific language impairment in Sweden. The elicitation strategies, style of interaction and language production used by speech and language pathologists (SLPs) were analyzed in two conditions, free conversation and training of grammar. In training, the grammatical targets were used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pathology, Intervention, Language Impairments
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Chapman, Kathy L. – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
This study examined the relationship between presurgery speech measures and speech and language performance at 39 months as well as the relationship between early postsurgery speech measures and speech and language performance at 39 months of age. Fifteen children with cleft lip and palate participated in the study. Spontaneous speech samples were…
Descriptors: Surgery, Congenital Impairments, Speech, Language Acquisition