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The Language of Children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus: Meeting Task Demands and Mastering Syntax.
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Byrne, Karen; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1990
Linguistic performance of 7 children (mean age=68 months) with spina bifida, hydrocephalus, and average intelligence was evaluated. Subjects dealt with the semantic-pragmatic requirements of linguistically posed problems in an age-appropriate manner. Performance declined as task demands increased but no more than performance of nondisabled…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Language Skills, Neurological Impairments, Performance Factors
An Experimental Analysis of Milieu Language Intervention: Teaching the Action-Object Form.
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Warren, Steven F.; Bambara, Linda M. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
Three young children with borderline to moderate mental retardation were taught the action-object form using milieu language intervention. Subjects learned to generatively produce action-object combinations in nonobligatory conversational situations as requests for objects/actions and as declaratives, and also began to respond correctly to probe…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Incidental Learning, Intervention, Language Acquisition
Process/pra/,ses/n: The action of Moving Forward Progressively from One Point to Another on the Way to Completion.
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Prutting, Carol A. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1979
The article presents a rationale for the application of a stage process model to provide speech clinicians with guidelines, based on complexity, for the content and sequencing of communicative behaviors to be used in planning remedial programs for children with language disorders. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Developmental Stages, Language Handicaps, Language Instruction