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A Language-Delayed Child at Adolescence
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Weiner, Paul S. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1974
A 16-year-old boy, first seen at 4 years of age because of his severe language difficulties, was reexamined to provide data on the later functioning of language-delayed children. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Delayed Speech, Exceptional Child Research
Developing Communicative Intentions in a Language Delayed Preverbal Child: A Case Study.
Owings, Nathaniel O.; And Others – 1983
The training study was designed to use the developmentally appropriate communicative intention of protest as a vehicle for teaching request for object to one 3-year-old language delayed preverbal child. Results revealed that with a specific intervention model the S learned to gesturally, vocally, and verbally express the communication intention…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Skills, Delayed Speech, Intervention
Speech Samples: A Clinical Check on Validity.
Conant, Susan; Budoff, Milton – Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 1986
Speech samples were elicited twice (four months apart) from a 4-year-old language delayed child. Clinical analysis involved examination of conversational turns and words, length of unit, speech act variables, amount of speech, and syntax. Although results clearly indicated an unmistakable surge in expressive language, analysis did not explain the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
Defective Infant Formulas and Expressive Language Problems: A Case Study.
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Wing, Clara S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1990
Children who used chloride-deficient soy-based infant formulas (Neo-Mull-Soy and Cho-Free) have been found to exhibit expressive language disorders. Medical studies of such children are reviewed, and a case study compares the language development deficits of an eight-year-old boy who used the formula with that of his fraternal twin who did not.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Delayed Speech, Elementary Education
[Infant and Toddler Communication Disorders].
Pawl, Jeree, Ed. – Zero to Three, 1990
This newsletter issue contains four articles all addressing aspects of intervention with infants and toddlers having communication disorders. The first, "Assessing the Communication of Infants and Toddlers: Integrating a Socioemotional Perspective" (Barry M. Prizant and Amy M. Wetherby) describes a new instrument, the Communication and Symbolic…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Case Studies, Child Development, Communication Disorders
APHASIC CHILDREN, IDENTIFICATION AND EDUCATION BY THE ASSOCIATION METHOD.
MCGINNIS, MILDRED A. – 1963
THIS BOOK IS DESIGNED TO DEFINE APHASIA AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS, TO PRESENT A PROCEDURE FOR TEACHING LANGUAGE TO APHASIC CHILDREN, AND TO APPLY THIS PROCEDURE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUBJECTS. OTHER HANDICAPPING CONDITIONS WHICH COMPLICATE THE DIAGNOSIS OF APHASIA ARE PRESENTED BY MEANS OF CASE STUDIES. CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO TYPES OF…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Case Studies, Children, Delayed Speech
The Speech Behavior and Language Comprehension of Autistic Children. A Report of Research.
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Pronovost, Wilbert – 1966
Thirteen institutionalized children from 4-1/2 to 14 years old, diagnosed as autistic, atypical, or childhood schizophrenic, were observed for three years to obtain a detailed description of their speech and language behavior. Case histories were assembled from available medical and psychological data. During a program of experimental relationship…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Clinical Diagnosis