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Complex Syntax Input: A Single Case Investigation of Increasing Preschool Teachers' Complement Clauses in Play Interactions
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Laurel Teller; C. Melanie Schuele – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
This study investigated the feasibility of a vocabulary-based teacher intervention to increase preschool teachers' production of complement clauses (e.g. "I wonder if we can put the monkey in the tree") in teacher-children play interactions. Using a multiple baseline across participants design we measured the impact of an intervention…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Education, Phrase Structure, Teacher Student Relationship
What's Happening? And Other Questions Obligating Complete Sentences as Responses
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Jean-Baptiste, Rachel; Klein, Harriet B.; Brates, Danielle; Moses, Nelson – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2018
This study was designed to examine the strength of question types to obligate complete responses from children, and the effect of age and play context. Participants were typically developing children (mean ages 2;8, 3;4 and 4;7), who engaged in play with three speech-language pathologists in play contexts. Questions posed to the children were…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Statistical Analysis, Responses
Do Gestures Pave the Way?: A Systematic Review of the Transitional Role of Gesture during the Acquisition of Early Lexical and Syntactic Milestones in Young Children with Down Syndrome
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te Kaat-van den Os, Danielle J. A.; Jongmans, Marian J.; Volman, M (Chiel) J. M.; Lauteslager, Peter E. M. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2015
Expressive language problems are common among children with Down syndrome (DS). In typically developing (TD) children, gestures play an important role in supporting the transition from one-word utterances to two-word utterances. As far as we know, an overview on the role of gestures to support expressive language development in children with DS is…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Down Syndrome, Expressive Language, Language Skills
Pre-Professional Students' Explicit Syntax Knowledge: Preliminary Analysis
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Brimo, Danielle; Melamed, Tina – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2017
Existing research concludes that educators have varying levels of language knowledge. Educators' varying levels of language knowledge may be related to the type of content knowledge they received while in school. The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of pre-professional speech-language pathology (SLP) students who have taken…
Descriptors: Syntax, Speech Language Pathology, Language Acquisition, Early Childhood Education
Efficacy of the Lexicon Pirate Strategy Therapy for Improving Lexical Learning in School-Age Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Motsch, Hans-Joachim; Marks, Dana-Kristin – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2015
Lexicon Pirate was originally developed as a strategy intervention programme to treat lexical disorders of pre-school children. To evaluate the therapy's effectiveness for school-age students, a randomized controlled trial (RCT, N = 157) was conducted. Based on a pre--post-test design, the programme's impacts were compared with a control group…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Pretests Posttests, Experimental Groups
Promotion of Syntactical Development and Oral Comprehension: Development and Initial Evaluation of a Small-Group Intervention
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Phillips, Beth M. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
This article reports on the development and preliminary implementation trials of a modular small-group intervention targeting syntax and vocabulary for children at high risk for reading comprehension difficulties in grades prekindergarten through first. The intervention, delivered by trained paraprofessionals, included 12 weeks of 20-minute…
Descriptors: Syntax, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, At Risk Students
Development of Communication Skills in Finnish Pre-School Children Examined by the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC)
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Yliherva, Anneli; Loukusa, Soile; Vaisanen, Raija; Pyper, Amanda; Moilanen, Irma – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2009
The communication skills of typically developing Finnish-speaking children between three and six years of age were examined using the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC). The differences between the boys and girls were also investigated. Results showed that the performance of the three-year-old children differed on the Speech subscale of the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Rhetoric, Syntax, Preschool Children