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Direct linkIris Duinmeijer; Sanne Peet; Lonneke Janssen; Annette Scheper; Margo Zwitserlood-Nijenhuis; Wendy Bliekendaal; Marijke Zoons; Britt Hakvoort – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have problems acquiring language, affecting their communicative participation, social--emotional functioning (SEF) and quality of life (QoL). Aims: To investigate whether communicative participation mediates the relation between language and SEF and QoL. Methods & Procedures: In a…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Communication Skills, Quality of Life
Download full textMeadan, Hedda; Stoner, Julia B.; Angell, Maureen E. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2015
Parents' perspectives on a home-based, parent-implemented social-pragmatic communication intervention for young children aged 37 to 60 months with limited expressive language are presented in this report. The researchers analyzed the perspectives of seven parent participants in the Institute of Education Sciences-funded Parent-Implemented…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Developmental Disabilities, Intervention, Young Children
Lopata, Christopher; Toomey, Jennifer A.; Thomeer, Marcus L.; McDonald, Christin A.; Fox, Jeffery D.; Smith, Rachael A.; Meichenbaum, David L.; Volker, Martin A.; Lee, Gloria K.; Lipinski, Alanna M. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2015
This community effectiveness trial examined the feasibility and efficacy of a comprehensive psychosocial treatment for 28 children, aged 7 to 10 years with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HFASDs). Treatment included instruction and therapeutic activities targeting social skills, face-emotion recognition skills, interest expansion, and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Toth, Karen; Dawson, Geraldine; Meltzoff, Andrew N.; Greenson, Jessica; Fein, Deborah – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Studies are needed to better understand the broad autism phenotype in young siblings of children with autism. Cognitive, adaptive, social, imitation, play, and language abilities were examined in 42 non-autistic siblings and 20 toddlers with no family history of autism, ages 18-27 months. Siblings, as a group, were below average in expressive…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Cognitive Ability, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development
Proctor, Adele – 1983
This guide was prepared to facilitate the practitioner's selection of formal tests for evaluating communicative behavior in clinical infant populations during the first year of life. Clinical instruments with particular emphasis on communication and emerging language and speech abilities were identified in terms of publishers' recommended…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Guidelines
Aldred, Catherine; Green, Jonathan; Adams, Catherine – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: Psychosocial treatments are the mainstay of management of autism in the UK but there is a notable lack of a systematic evidence base for their effectiveness. Randomised controlled trial (RCT) studies in this area have been rare but are essential because of the developmental heterogeneity of the disorder. We aimed to test a new…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Program Effectiveness, Social Development
