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Teaching Expository Text Management and Proficiency Skills for Comprehension for Students with Language/Learning Disabilities
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Shannon S. Hall-Mills; Leesa M. Marante – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2025
The purpose of this registered report study was to determine the effects of explicit text structure instruction on the expository text comprehension of students with language and learning disabilities (LLD) using a multiple baseline design across conditions (e.g., compare-contrast and cause-effect) and participants. Participants included four…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Language Impairments, Learning Disabilities, Expository Writing
Investigating Task Persistence in Preschool Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Madison Formanek; Tammie J. Spaulding – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: The present study was designed to investigate persistence in preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD) compared to similar-age peers with typical language (TL) on tasks designed to be moderately challenging, yet equivalent in difficulty for both groups. Method: Sixteen preschool-age children with DLD were matched to 16…
Descriptors: Persistence, Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
Parents Plus: A Parent-Implemented Intervention for Preschool Children with Developmental Language Disorders
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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
Language Profiles of School-Age Children with 16p11.2 Copy Number Variants in a Clinically Ascertained Cohort
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Jente Verbesselt; Jeroen Breckpot; Inge Zink; Ann Swillen – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Individuals with proximal 16p11.2 copy number variants (CNVs), either deletions (16p11.2DS) or duplications (16p11.2Dup), are predisposed to neurodevelopmental difficulties and disorders, such as language disorders, intellectual disability, and autism spectrum disorder. The purpose of the current study was to characterize language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligence Tests, Vocabulary, Verbal Ability
Incidental Learning and Social-Communicative Abilities in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Further Evaluating the Implicit Learning Deficit Hypothesis
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Joseph H. R. Maes; Annette R. Scheper; Daan Hermans; Constance T. W. M. Vissers – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: The implicit learning deficit hypothesis claims that impaired implicit learning underlies deficits in social-communicative abilities associated with developmental language disorder (DLD). However, previous research testing this hypothesis revealed inconsistent results and largely used process-impure sequential learning tasks. Aims:…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Preadolescents, Early Adolescents
Early Childhood Practitioners' Use of Language Facilitation Strategies during Informational Book Reading: Relation to Language Skills of Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Ying Guo; Allison Breit; Yanli Xie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2025
Purpose: The primary aim of the study was to examine the association between early childhood practitioners' use of language facilitation strategies during interactive book reading of informational texts related to science and the language skills of preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Twenty-four practitioners (12…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Reading, Preschool Children, Language Impairments