The paper presents a review of the constituent skills and environmental factors which influence the initial onset and continued acquisition of requests for information in normally developing children to provide the foundation for a protocol for assessing and treating children impaired in requesting information. Specific assessment and treatment…

A language intervention approach which incorporates communication games involving vocabulary, syntax, articulation, and conversational situations appeared to result in positive changes for children with no or moderate language delays, but not for those with severe cognitive delays. (CL)