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Treatment of Anomia Using Errorless Versus Errorful Learning: Are Frontal Executive Skills and Feedback Important?
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Fillingham, Joanne; Sage, Karen; Ralph, Matthew Lambon – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: Studies from the amnesia literature suggest that errorless learning can produce superior results to errorful learning. However, it was found in a previous investigation by the present authors that errorless and errorful therapy produced equivalent results for patients with aphasic word-finding difficulties. A study in the academic…
Descriptors: Speech Therapy, Recognition (Psychology), Feedback, Discrimination Learning
Early Lexical and Syntactic Development in Quebec French and English: Implications for Cross-Linguistic and Bilingual Assessment
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Thordardottir, Elin T. – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: Although a number of studies have been conducted on normal acquisition in French, systematic methods for analysis of French and normative group data have been lacking. Aims: To develop a systematic method for the analysis of language samples in Quebec French, and to provide preliminary normative data on early lexical and syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Monolingualism, Error Patterns
Effect of Sentence Length and Complexity on Working Memory Performance in Hungarian Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
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Marton, Klara; Schwartz, Richard G.; Farkas, Lajos; Katsnelson, Valeriya – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2006
Background: English-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) perform more poorly than their typically developing peers in verbal working memory tasks where processing and storage are simultaneously required. Hungarian is a language with a relatively free word order and a rich agglutinative morphology. Aims: To examine the effect…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Linguistics, Sentences, Language Acquisition