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Schneider, Phyllis; Hayward, Denyse – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: This article describes the development of a measure, called First Mentions (FM), that can be used to evaluate the referring expressions that children use to introduce characters and objects when telling a story. Method: Participants were 377 children ages 4 to 9 years (300 with typical development, 77 with language impairment) who told…
Descriptors: Age, Language Impairments, Story Telling, Young Children
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Schneider, Phyllis; Watkins, Ruth V. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1996
This article presents key ideas from Lev S. Vygotsky's social-interactionist zones of proximal development theory and applications of this theory to assessment and intervention with children having language impairments. A case study illustrates the steps in coordinating assessment and intervention. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Psychology, Diagnostic Teaching