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A Transagency Approach to Enabling Access to Parent-Based Intervention for Language Delay in Areas of Social Disadvantage: A Service Evaluation
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Gibbard, Deborah; Smith, Clare – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2016
Primary language delay remains one of the most prevalent developmental delays in early childhood, particularly in disadvantaged areas. Previous research has established language difficulties and social disadvantage being particular risk factors for adverse outcomes later in life. To help prevent low educational achievement and poorer outcomes,…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Disadvantaged, Early Intervention, Preschool Children
Analysing Frequency and Temporal Reliability of Children's Morphosyntactic Production in Spontaneous Language Samples of Varying Lengths
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Tommerdahl, Jodi; Kilpatrick, Cynthia – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
Spontaneous language samples are a useful tool in studying the nature of morphosyntactic production in both clinical and academic settings. However, little work has been done on typical frequency of occurrence of morpheme production and even less on the degree of temporal reliability of morpheme frequency between samples. This study compares two…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphemes, Reliability, Preschool Children
Supporting Caregivers in Developing Responsive Communication Partnerships with Their Children: Extending a Caregiver-Led Interactive Language Program
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Cologon, Kathy; Wicks, Lilly; Salvador, Aliza – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2017
This study investigates whether extension of a caregiver-led interactive language program may enhance its effectiveness in supporting communication. Caregiver-led language programs, which focus on establishing responsive interaction patterns to support opportunities for communication between caregivers and young children within natural settings,…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Disabilities
Effects of Parent-Based Video Home Training in Children with Developmental Language Delay
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van Balkom, Hans; Verhoeven, Ludo; van Weerdenburg, Marjolijn; Stoep, Judith – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010
An efficacy study of an indirect or Parent-based intervention programme involving Video Home Training (PVHT) was conducted with a focus on parental strategies to (re-)establish coherence in conversations between young children with Developmental Language Delay (DLD) and their parents or caregivers. In order to assess the efficacy of the PVHT…
Descriptors: Parents as Teachers, Video Technology, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments
Task-Setting at Home and in Speech and Language Therapy
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Tykkylainen, Tuula – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2009
The aim of this article is to analyse and describe task-setting in game-like interactions. The task-setting is studied in two contexts: in everyday interaction and in speech and language therapy. The data comprises task interaction between mothers and 5-year-old typically developing children (6 pairs) and task interaction between speech and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Language Impairments, Interaction, Therapy
Retrospective Parent Report of Early Vocal Behaviours in Children with Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech (sCAS)
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Highman, Chantelle; Hennessey, Neville; Sherwood, Mellanie; Leitao, Suze – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2008
Parents of children with suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech (sCAS, n = 20), Specific Language Impairment (SLI, n = 20), and typically developing speech and language skills (TD, n = 20) participated in this study, which aimed to quantify and compare reports of early vocal development. Via a questionnaire, parents reported on their child's early…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Children, Parents, Longitudinal Studies