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Effects Of Receptive Language Deficits On Persisting Expressive Language Delays, Traci Lee Giacherro
Effects Of Receptive Language Deficits On Persisting Expressive Language Delays, Traci Lee Giacherro
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Predicting language outcomes in children who at age two are "late talkers" is a concern of Speech Language Pathologists. Currently, there is no conclusive data allowing specialists to predict which children will outgrow their delays and which children will not. The purpose of the present study is to analyze the effect of a receptive language delay on the outcome of the slow expressive language delayed child, and determine whether or not it is a viable predictor of poor outcomes.
The subject information used in this project was compiled from the data collected and reported by Paul (1991) during the Portland …