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Blackwell, Anna K. M.; Harding, Sam; Babayigit, Selma; Roulstone, Sue – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
The importance of parent-child interaction (PCI) for language development has been well established. This has led many speech and language therapy (SLT) interventions to focus on modifying PCI as a means to improving children's early language delay. However, the success of such programs is mixed. The current review compares PCI, observed in…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Communication Problems, Databases, Comparative Analysis
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Harris, Kandis L.; Moran, Michael J. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2006
This study compared phonological features of African American English speakers at 3 grade levels: preschool, elementary school, and middle school. The phonological features exhibited at all 3 grade levels were quite similar. The frequency of usage, determined by the percentage of speakers exhibiting the feature and by the mean number of…
Descriptors: North American English, Black Dialects, African Americans, Grade 3
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Guiberson, Mark M.; Barrett, Karen C.; Jancosek, Elizabeth G.; Itano, Christine Yoshinaga – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2006
In this study, the authors plotted the Spanish language usage of 10 preschool-age children over the course of 3 years and assigned them to one of two groups: language maintenance and language loss. The authors then compared the groups' scores on structured tasks, language behaviors, and language usage/exposure variables. They found that children…
Descriptors: Spanish, Preschool Children, Language Usage, Mexican Americans