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Factors in Toddlers with Late Language Emergence in a Middle-Income South African Sample
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Kraamwinkel, Elmien; Kritzinger, Alta – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2022
Late language emergence (LLE) may result from genetic and environmental factors. Little is known about environmental factors in LLE in South Africa. The study describes the nature of differences in language functioning between toddlers with LLE and without LLE, and which factors were associated with LLE in a middle-income area in South Africa.…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Delayed Speech, Comparative Analysis
Comparison of Two Word Learning Techniques and the Effect of Neighborhood Density for Late Talkers
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DeVeney, Shari L.; Cress, Cynthia J.; Reid, Robert – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2014
The investigators compared two techniques for teaching expressive vocabulary to late talkers: modeling with an expectant pause and modeling with an evoked child production. They also explored the influence of neighborhood density on children's real word learning. Three late talkers (ages 25-33 months) received two alternating vocabulary treatments…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods
A Comparison of the Speech and Language Skills of Children with Cochlear Implants and Children with Normal Hearing
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Schorr, Efrat A.; Roth, Froma P.; Fox, Nathan A. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2008
This study explored the language skills of children with cochlear implants (CIs) compared to normal hearing (NH) peers. Standardized speech and language measures, including speech articulation, receptive and expressive vocabulary, syntax and morphology, and metalinguistics, were administered to 39 congenitally deaf children, ages 5 to 14, and a…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Metalinguistics, Syntax, Deafness