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Narrative Analysis: Clinical Applications of Story Generation and Story Retelling.
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Merritt, Donna DiSegna; Liles, Betty Z. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
Twenty language-disordered and 20 nonimpaired children, aged 9-11, performed story generation and story retelling tasks. For both groups, retold narratives were longer and contained more story grammar components and complete episode structures. Clause length differentiated story generation from story retelling for the language-disordered children…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Narration
Communication Breakdowns in Normal and Language Learning-Disabled Children's Conversation and Narration.
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MacLachlan, Barbara G.; Chapman, Robin S. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1988
Communication breakdowns occurring in the speech of seven language learning-disabled children (aged 9-11) were examined in conversation and narration and compared to normal peers. Length of communication unit and rate of communication breakdowns per communication unit were greater in narration than conversation compared to controls. No differences…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Dialogs (Language)
Longitudinal Changes in Auditory Discrimination in Normal Children and Children with Language-Learning Problems.
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Elliott, Lois L.; Hammer, Michael A. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1988
Using a set of fine-grained auditory discrimination tasks, 21 children with language-learning problems were compared with 21 normal children, aged six-nine. Across three years, children with language-learning problems showed poorer auditory discrimination for temporally based acoustic differences, poorer receptive vocabulary and language…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Comparative Analysis
Responses to Requests for Clarification by Linguistically Normal and Language-Impaired Children in Conversation.
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Brinton, Bonnie; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1988
This study compared the conversational repair strategies employed by eight language-impaired children, aged 7-11, and their linguistically normal age- and language-matched peers. All of the subjects appeared to recognize the obligatory nature of the neutral clarification requests employed, though performance differences were noted relating to…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Proportional and Functional Analogical Reasoning in Normal and Language-Impaired Children.
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Nippold, Marilyn A.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1988
Twenty children, aged six-eight, with normal nonverbal intelligence but language comprehension deficits, were administered tasks of verbal and perceptual proportional analogical reasoning and a problem-solving task of functional analogical reasoning. Compared to controls, subjects were deficient in analogical reasoning. However, when the…
Descriptors: Analogy, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Intelligence
Effectiveness of Language Intervention with the Language/Learning Disabled.
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Nye, Chad; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1987
A total of 43 studies, involving 1,703 subjects with a mean age of 6:11, were analyzed to assess the effectiveness of language intervention with language/learning disabled children. Results suggested that the average language-disordered child moved from the 50th percentile to the 85th as a result of language intervention. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness