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Henry Angulo-Jiménez; Marisela Bonilla-López; Esteban Rojas-Ramírez – Topics in Language Disorders, 2024
Purpose: Although autistic perspectives are paramount for evidence-based practice and the neurodiversity paradigm, they are often underrepresented in research and have only recently started to get attention from professionals in different fields, including communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and foreign language teaching (FLT). To alleviate…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Spanish, French
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Krok, Windi; Norton, Elizabeth S.; Buchheit, Mary Kate; Harriott, Emily M.; Wakschlag, Lauren; Hadley, Pamela A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2022
Although language samples are child-friendly and well-suited for obtaining global measures of language production, structured protocols have the potential to elicit many different exemplars of language structures in a shorter amount of time. We created a structured elicitation protocol, the Sentence Diversity Priming Task (SDPT), to efficiently…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Sentences, Language Skills, Picture Books
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Sonali Nag; Gideon Arulmani; Dhir Jhingran; Jelena Mirkovic; Alis Oancea; Margaret Snowling – Topics in Language Disorders, 2025
High-quality oral language interventions support children's readiness for formal literacy instruction, and yet guidance for multilingual classrooms is not available. To address this gap, we drew on the empirical literature on linguistically diverse learners, classroom linguistic environments, and usage-based theories to identify principles for…
Descriptors: Oral Language, School Readiness, Heuristics, Teaching Methods
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Hindman, Annemarie H.; Farrow, JeanMarie; Wasik, Barbara A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2022
Back-and-forth conversations with adults are critical for developing children's language, and, therefore, an important part of the early childhood classroom learning environment; however, the specific nature of teacher feedback, one component of teacher-child conversations, on child language has not been widely studied. This article examined…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Feedback (Response)
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Catherine Wiseman-Hakes; Maya Albin; Anna Rupert; Michelle Phoenix – Topics in Language Disorders, 2025
The high prevalence of trauma world-wide is such that speech-language pathologists are likely to support clients across the lifespan with experiences of trauma, such as abuse, neglect, intergenerational and racial trauma, and exposure to structural and systemic violence. Trauma can affect peoples' neurobiology and can also impact cognitive,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology, Trauma Informed Approach, Counselor Client Relationship
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Light, Janice; Barwise, Allison; Gardner, Ann Marie; Flynn, Molly – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
Personalized augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) intervention refers to an approach in which intervention is tailored to the individual's needs and skills, the needs and priorities of the individual's family and other social environments, the evidence base, and the individual's response to intervention. This approach is especially…
Descriptors: Literacy, Language Acquisition, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Case Studies