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Assessment and Therapy Goal Planning Using Free Computerized Language Analysis Software
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Ratner, Nan Bernstein; MacWhinney, Brian – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023
Background: We discuss a free software system (Computerized Language Analysis [CLAN]) that can enable fast, thorough, and informative language sample analysis (LSA). Method: We describe methods for eliciting, transcribing, analyzing, and interpreting language samples. Using a hypothetical child speaker, we illustrate use KidEval to generate a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Goal Orientation, Computational Linguistics, Syntax
Naturalistic Language Recordings Reveal "Hypervocal" Infants at High Familial Risk for Autism
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Swanson, Meghan R.; Shen, Mark D.; Wolff, Jason J.; Boyd, Brian; Clements, Mark; Rehg, James; Elison, Jed T.; Paterson, Sarah; Parish-Morris, Julia; Chappell, J. Chad; Hazlett, Heather C.; Emerson, Robert W.; Botteron, Kelly; Pandey, Juhi; Schultz, Robert T.; Dager, Stephen R.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Estes, Annette M.; Piven, Joseph – Child Development, 2018
Children's early language environments are related to later development. Little is known about this association in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who often experience language delays or have ASD. Fifty-nine 9-month-old infants at high or low familial risk for ASD contributed full-day in-home language recordings.…
Descriptors: Infants, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Environmental Influences
Language Delays and Child Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Early Stimulation in the Home
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Herman, Keith C.; Cohen, Daniel; Owens, Sarah; Latimore, Tracey; Reinke, Wendy M.; Burrell, Lori; McFarlane, Elizabeth; Duggan, Anne – Grantee Submission, 2016
The present study investigated the role of early stimulation in the home and child language delays in the emergence of depressive symptoms. Data were from a longitudinal study of at-risk children in Hawaii (n = 587). Low learning stimulation in the home at age 3 and language delays in first grade both significantly increased risk for child…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Delayed Speech, Child Language, Depression (Psychology)
Caregivers' Suffix Frequencies and Suffix Acquisition by Language Impaired, Late Talking, and Typically Developing Children
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Warlaumont, Anne S.; Jarmulowicz, Linda – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Acquisition of regular inflectional suffixes is an integral part of grammatical development in English and delayed acquisition of certain inflectional suffixes is a hallmark of language impairment. We investigate the relationship between input frequency and grammatical suffix acquisition, analyzing 217 transcripts of mother-child (ages 1 ; 11-6 ;…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Impairments, Caregivers
Thirty-Five Years of Care of Child Language in Egypt
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Kotby, M. Nasser; El-Sady, Safaa; Hegazi, Mona – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
The team of the Unit of Phoniatrics and Logopedics of the Ain Shams University Clinic in Cairo, Egypt, has worked for three and half decades to spread awareness of child language disorders. This involved publications to inform the public, as well as health care professionals, about the needs of children with delayed language, through description…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Publications
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
Language Learning with Restricted Input: Case Studies of Two Hearing Children of Deaf Parents.
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Sachs, Jacqueline; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1981
Two linguistically deficient children of deaf parents had been cared for almost exclusively by their mother, who did not speak or sign to them. Intervention led to erasure of idiosynchratic speech pattern in the older child and in increasing both children's expressive ability. Implications for language-learning are discussed. (PJM)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Children, Comprehension