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Peer reviewedHall, Nancy; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Ten preschool subjects exhibiting more disfluencies than 50 other subjects with language disorders were found to be older and score higher on vocabulary. Findings suggest some children with language disorders are at risk for fluency breakdown because of dysynchronies in development of lexical and syntactic aspects of language or as a result of…
Descriptors: Age, Communication Problems, Etiology, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedRatner, Nan Bernstein – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
This study of 20 mothers and their fluent children (ages 3-5) found no significant differences between the effects of instructions to slow maternal speech rate and instructions to slow and simplify maternal speech. Children's speech rate and language complexity did not parallel maternal adjustments, which is problematic for parental involvement in…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Language Fluency


