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Patterns Of Language Impairment And Behaviour In Boys Excluded From School
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Ripley, Kate; Yuill, Nicola – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Background: High levels of behaviour problems are found in children with language impairments, but less is known about the level and nature of language impairment in children with severe behavioural problems. In particular, previous data suggest that at primary age, receptive impairments are more closely related to behaviour problems, whereas…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Memory, Language Patterns, Risk
Grammatical Characteristics of Swedish Children with SLI.
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Hansson, Kristina; Nettelbladt, Ulrika – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Spontaneous speech samples from 10 Swedish children were analyzed grammatically. The five subjects (age five) with specific language impairment (SLI) differed from controls in their more restricted usage of word order patterns and number of grammatical errors. Their speech also showed frequent omissions of grammatical morphemes. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Expressive Language, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Predicting Language Outcomes for Internationally Adopted Children
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Glennen, Sharon L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: Language and speech are difficult to assess in newly arrived internationally adopted children. The purpose of this study was to determine if assessments completed when toddlers were first adopted could predict language outcomes at age 2. Local norms were used to develop early intervention guidelines that were evaluated against age 2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Articulation (Speech), Early Intervention, Language Patterns
Specific Language Impairment: Preliminary Investigation of Factors Associated with Family History and with Patterns of Language Performance.
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Lahey, Margaret; Edwards, Jan – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Analysis of characteristics of 53 children with specific language impairment (SLI), ages 4 to 9, suggested that family history is related to pattern of language performance. Children with deficits in only expressive language had a higher proportion of affected family members than did children with both expressive and receptive language deficits.…
Descriptors: Etiology, Expressive Language, Family Environment, Family Influence
Comparison of Spanish, English, and Bilingual Children's Performance across Semantic Tasks.
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Pena, Elizabeth; Bedore, Lisa M.; Rappazzo, Christina – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2003
A study compared 47 Spanish-speaking, predominantly English-speaking, and Spanish-English bilingual children's performance on a battery of semantic tasks. Children in all three groups achieved similar average levels of performance. The profiles of bilingual children in each language were somewhat different from those of the other children.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Hispanic Americans
Effects of Age and Education on the Lexico-Semantic Content of Connected Speech in Adults.
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Le Dorze, Guylaine; Bedard, Christine – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1998
Connected speech of 134 healthy, Canadian French-speaking adults, grouped according to age and education level, was analyzed using an aphasia battery. Results demonstrated that older subjects with less education produced fewer content units and were less efficient in transmitting lexico-semantic information. Effects of age and education level on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Age Differences, Aphasia