University of Arizona
The overall purpose of this project is to improve how 5 to 7 year old children who have trouble using language use complex sentences. The questions that this study is trying to answer are: Does this treatment help children use sentences with adverbial clauses (e.g., sentences with because, so that, when, until, etc.)? Do children maintain this learning over time?
This study will involve 5-7 year old children with Developmental Language Disorder. The study will teach complex sentences with adverbial clauses (e.g., sentences with conjunctions like because, so that, when, until, etc.). The study will involve an initial assessment of children's language skills. Children who qualify for the project will participate in 20 teletherapy treatment sessions across approximately 10 weeks. The treatment will involve listening to stories that include several sentences with adverbial clauses, and answering questions about the stories. Following the treatment, childre…
Inclusion Criteria: * Between ages 5 years, 0 months and 7 years, 11 months at the time of treatment onset. * Have spoken English since birth, with exposure to other languages acceptable * Normal hearing as indicated by a word-repetition task * Normal nonverbal skills as indicated by the nonverbal scale of the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (score above 84) * Impaired language as indicated by the Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test (below cut score for age) * Regular use of spoken sentences (contains both a subject and predicate) * Poor performance (below 50% accuracy) on pretre…
Children will listen to examples of adverbial clauses in stories and generate sentences containing these clauses, then hear clinician recasts of their sentences
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