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Beal, Jennifer S.; Bowman, Sarah – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023
Researchers have focused on how deaf signing children acquire and use American Sign Language (ASL). One sub-skill of ASL proficiency is ASL phonology. This includes the ability to isolate and manipulate parameters within signs (i.e., handshape, location, and movement). Expressively, signed language phonological fluency tasks have investigated…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Proficiency, Phonology, Language Skills
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Kellogg, David; Shin, Ji-young – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2018
Vygotsky measured his 'zone of proximal development' in years. To do this, he needed a scheme of age periods, and a set of tasks that could diagnose the next age period without defining it. In this paper, we compare the age periods in his late lectures with Halliday's categories of logico-semantic expansion as used by three adolescent…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Adolescent Development, Problem Solving, Ability
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Ebbels, Susan – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
This article summarizes the evidence as regards the effectiveness of therapy for grammar for school-aged children with language impairments. I first review studies focusing on specific areas of grammar (both expressive and receptive targets) and then studies aiming to improve language more generally, several of which focus more on the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grammar, Language Impairments, Expressive Language
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Boucher, Jill – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: Structural language anomalies or impairments in autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) are theoretically and practically important, although underrecognised as such. This review aims to highlight the ubiquitousness of structural language anomalies and impairments in ASD, and to stimulate investigation of their immediate causes and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Autism, Language Impairments
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Thorne, John C.; Coggins, Truman E.; Olson, Heather Carmichael; Astley, Susan J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: To evaluate classification accuracy and clinical feasibility of a narrative analysis tool for identifying children with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Method: Picture-elicited narratives generated by 16 age-matched pairs of school-aged children (FASD vs. typical development [TD]) were coded for semantic elaboration and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Expressive Language, Classification, Autism
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Liegeois, Frederique; Cross, J. Helen; Polkey, Charles; Harkness, William; Vargha-Khadem, Faraneh – Neuropsychologia, 2008
After hemispherectomy (removal or disconnection of an entire cerebral hemisphere) in childhood for treatment of intractable epilepsy, gross speech and language functions are often rescued. Whether more complex functions, such as syntactic processing, are selectively impaired, remains controversial. Here we present a cross-sectional study of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Epilepsy, Semantics, Surgery
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Connell, Phil J. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1986
Comparison of production and comprehension methods in teaching six 3-year-old language disordered children the relationship between semantic role and word order indicated the production method (the children produced sentences contrasting word order and meaning) was more effective than the comprehension method (the children responded to contrasting…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps