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Using A Database Of Typical Speakers To Describe The Expository Language Skills Of Children With Language Impairment, Joanna Carol Zwerlein
Using A Database Of Typical Speakers To Describe The Expository Language Skills Of Children With Language Impairment, Joanna Carol Zwerlein
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Purpose. This study examined the expository language skills of older students with language impairment (LI) in relation to a large database of typically developing (TD) students. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether comparing language samples to the database allowed users to distinguish between adolescents with LI and those with typical language, and develop individual profiles of relative strengths and weaknesses in children with LI.
Methods. School speech-language pathologists elicited expository language samples from high school students with LI (N = 9; mean age = 16;8 [years;months]) by asking them to explain how to play their favorite game …
Perspectives Of Stuttering Treatment: Parents, Children, And Adolescents, Heather Darlene Salvo
Perspectives Of Stuttering Treatment: Parents, Children, And Adolescents, Heather Darlene Salvo
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ABSTRACT
Perspectives of Stuttering Treatment:
Parents, Children, and Adolescents
By Heather D. Salvo
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee August 2016
Under the Supervision of Carol H. Seery
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Purpose. The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether age affects the perspectives of children (ages 8-12), adolescents (ages 13-17), and parents related to stuttering treatment experiences and outcomes. A secondary purpose of this study was to investigate whether the perspectives of children and adolescents regarding stuttering treatment experiences and outcome preferences differed from the perspective of their parents.
Participants. Participants required internet access and minors …