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A Systematic Review Of Academic Discourse Interventions For School-Aged Children With Language-Related Learning Disabilities, Amy K. Peterson, Carly B. Fox, Megan Israelsen
A Systematic Review Of Academic Discourse Interventions For School-Aged Children With Language-Related Learning Disabilities, Amy K. Peterson, Carly B. Fox, Megan Israelsen
Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Student Research
Purpose: This systematic review synthesized a set of peer-reviewed studies published between 1985 and 2019 and addressed the effectiveness of existing narrative and expository discourse interventions for late elementary and middle school-aged students with language-related learning disabilities.
Method: A methodical search of the literature for interventions targeting expository or narrative discourse structure for students ages 9-14 with group experimental designs identified 33 studies, seven of which met specific criteria to be included in this review.
Results: An 8-point critical appraisal scale was applied to analyze the quality of the study design and effect sizes were calculated for six of the …