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Oral Communication Skills of Children Who Are Hard of Hearing.
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Elfenbein, Jill L.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
Forty children (ages 5-18) with mild to severe hearing losses were administered a battery of speech and language tasks. Misarticulation, syntactic, and pragmatic errors indicated a consistent pattern of oral communication behavior that reflects the reduction of acoustic input such children experience. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Communication Skills, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Brief Report: The Effects of Typed and Spoken Modality Combinations on the Language Performance of Adults with Autism.
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Forsey, Janice; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1996
A study of five adult males with autism investigated which combination of input/output modalities (typed or spoken) enhanced the syntactic, semantic, and/or pragmatic performance of individuals with autism when engaging in conversations with a normal language adult. Results found that typed communications facilitated the use of longer utterances.…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Skills
Effects of Sampling Context on the Expressive Language of Children and Adolescents with Mental Retardation.
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Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1995
Conversational and narrative language samples were elicited from 16 school-age individuals with mental retardation and 16 typically developing children matched for mental age. Analysis demonstrated that both groups produced more syntactically complex language during narration, whereas they were more talkative during conversation. Results support…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education