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Finneran, Denise A.; Leonard, Laurence B.; Miller, Carol A. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: Many school-age children with specific language impairment produce sentences that appear to conform to the adult grammar. It may be premature to conclude from this, however, that their language formulation ability is age appropriate. Aims: To determine whether a more subtle measure of language use, speech disruptions during sentence…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Language Impairments, Statistical Analysis, Language Proficiency
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van Beijsterveldt, Liesbeth Maria; van Hell, Janet G. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: Deaf children vary in the use of and proficiency in signed language. The majority of studies on writing skills of children who are deaf did not assess deaf children's proficiency in signed language and/or grouped together deaf children with varying sign language skills. Aims: Adopting a bimodal bilingual perspective, we examined…
Descriptors: Deafness, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Writing Skills