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History Of Middle Ear Involvement And Speech/Language Development In Late Talkers, Rhea Paul, Timothy F. Lynn, Marla Lohr-Flanders
History Of Middle Ear Involvement And Speech/Language Development In Late Talkers, Rhea Paul, Timothy F. Lynn, Marla Lohr-Flanders
Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
Late-talking and normally speaking toddlers with and without histories of middle ear involvement were followed for 2 years to assess speech and expressive language outcomes. Results revealed no differences in expressive language outcome that could be attributed to history of middle ear involvement in either group. There did seem to be differences in outcome on measures of articulation that were associated with history of middle ear involvement. The implications of these findings for treatment of otitis media and for referral of late-talking toddlers for speech and language services are discussed.
Narrative Skills In 4-Year-Olds With Normal, Impaired, And Late-Developing Language, Rhea Paul, Rita L. Smith
Narrative Skills In 4-Year-Olds With Normal, Impaired, And Late-Developing Language, Rhea Paul, Rita L. Smith
Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
Two groups of children who were slow in expressive language development (SELD) at age 2 and a matched group of toddlers with normal language were re-evaluated at age 4. Assessment included measures of productive syntactic skills in spontaneous speech and narrative abilities in a standard story retelling task. Four-year-olds who continued to perform below the normal range in sentence structure production scored significantly lower than their normally speaking peers on all measures of narrative skill. Children who were slow to begin talking at age 2 but who, by age 4, had moved into the normal range in basic sentence structure …