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Direct linkGary A. Troia; Lauren Hennenfent; Mei Shen – Topics in Language Disorders, 2023
We conducted a scoping review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses to map the available research describing verbal pragmatic skills development and problems in school-age children with primary language impairments and children with language-learning disabilities. A total of 112 reports met inclusion…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Skills, Verbal Communication, Pragmatics
Louick, Rebecca; Emery, Alyssa; Muenks, Katherine; O'Grady, Madeline – Topics in Language Disorders, 2023
Evidence indicates that well-planned vocabulary interventions can be highly effective in helping students with language-based learning disabilities to develop the necessary vocabulary skills for literacy success. Although many researchers recognize the general importance of attending to psychological factors such as student motivation in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Students with Disabilities, At Risk Students, Learning Disabilities
Rosa-Lugo, Linda I.; Ehren, Barbara J. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2018
Gainful employment for adults in the United States currently requires high levels of literacy. As challenging as these requirements may be for the workforce at large, for adults who have a hearing loss (HL) and whose first spoken language is not English, the demands are especially problematic. Therefore, it is critical that educators prepare…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy
Mervis, Carolyn B. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Williams syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by deletion of approximately 25 genes on chromosome 7q11.23. Children with the syndrome evidence large individual differences in both broad language and reading abilities. Nevertheless, as a group, children with this syndrome show a consistent pattern characterized by relative…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Phonics, Short Term Memory, Reading Ability
Troia, Gary A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2005
This article addresses ways in which speech-language pathologists can play a proactive and substantive part in schoolwide reading disability prevention and intervention efforts within the responsiveness to intervention framework. First, the driving forces that led Congress to alter how schools may operationalize learning disabilities are…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Speech Language Pathology
McCardle, Peggy; Leung, Christy Y.Y. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2006
Nearly one in five Americans speaks a language other than English at home; among Americans speaking languages other than English, the largest single language group is Spanish speaking (U.S. Department of Commerce, 2004). The increase in the total group of language minority individuals has been dramatic, with their proportion in the U.S. population…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Program Descriptions, Spanish Speaking, Language Minorities
