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Using General Language Performance Measures to Assess Grammar Learning
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Eisenberg, Sarita L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2020
Grammar is an important goal area for children with language impairment. The current article considers the use of General Language Performance Measures (GLPMs) to assess outcomes for this basic goal area and for 3 intermediate grammar goals that contribute to children's developing ability to construct increasingly longer and more complex…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, Performance Based Assessment, Language Acquisition
Grammar Intervention: Content and Procedures for Facilitating Children's Language Development
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Eisenberg, Sarita L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2013
Children with language impairment (LI) show an overall immaturity in grammatical structure. This includes difficulties with basic sentence constituents, pronouns, verb form elaboration, negative and interrogative sentences, noun phrase elaboration, and complex sentences. This article describes explicit instruction and scaffolding strategies, based…
Descriptors: Grammar, Intervention, Children, Language Impairments
Early Syntactic Development: Simple Clause Types and Grammatical Morphology.
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Kamhi, Alan G.; Nelson, Lauren K. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988
The article looks at syntactic deficiencies involving simple clause structures and grammatical morphology in young children. A framework for understanding the development of simple clause structures is presented followed by a discussion of the correlates of early syntactic development. Procedures to assess and remediate syntactic deficiencies are…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Story Grammar Skills in School-Age Children.
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Page, Judith L.; Stewart, Sharon R. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1985
The authors describe the development and role of story grammars and note the implications for assessment of story production and retelling, scrambled stories, and the macrocloze technique (testing the child's ability to predict or infer missing information). Remediation procedures for improving prediction skills and training story grammar…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Grammar, Intervention
Producing Complex Sentences.
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Scott, Cheryl M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988
The article examines the child's ability to produce complex sentences with sections on a structural framework for complex language (clausal and nonclausal complexity), a developmental perspective (coordination of clauses, subordination of nominal, adverbial, and relative clauses), and applied considerations (evaluating and teaching complex…
Descriptors: Child Development, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
Teaching Children with Autism Self-Initiations as a Pivotal Response.
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Koegel, Lynn Kern; Carter, Cynthia M.; Koegel, Robert L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
A study assessed whether two children (ages 4-6) with autism could be taught a child-initiated query as a pivotal response to facilitate the use of grammatical morphemes. Children learned the strategy and acquired and generalized the targeted morpheme. Children also showed increases in mean length of utterance and verb acquisition. (Contains…
Descriptors: Autism, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Grammar