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Grammatical Morpheme Acquisition In 4-Year-Olds With Normal, Impaired, And Late-Developing Language, Rhea Paul, Sally Alforde
Grammatical Morpheme Acquisition In 4-Year-Olds With Normal, Impaired, And Late-Developing Language, Rhea Paul, Sally Alforde
Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
The production of the grammatical morphemes studied by Brown and his colleagues was examined in free speech samples from a cohort of 4-year-olds with a history of slow expressive language development (SELD) and a control group of normal speakers. Results suggest that children with SELD acquire morphemes in an order very similar to that shown in previous acquisition research. Children who were slow to begin talking at age 2 and who continued to evidence delayed expressive language development by age 4 showed mastery of the four earliest acquired grammatical morphemes, as would be expected, based on their MLUs, which fell …
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 …
Language Outcomes In Late-Talkers: Kindergarten, Rhea Paul
Language Outcomes In Late-Talkers: Kindergarten, Rhea Paul
Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
To examine language outcomes related to language acquisition and academic readiness, this study followed a group of toddlers with slow expressive language development (SELD) through their kindergarten year. Subjects were 27 children between 20 and 34 months who produced fewer than 50 words or no 2-word combinations on L. Resconla's (1989) Language Development Survey. This group was matched with a control group of 25 children with expressive vocabularies larger than 50 words. All subjects were given an intensive battery of assessments for receptive language, cognitive development, oral motor function, and adaptive behavior. A videotaped free play interaction between parent and …