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Botting, Nicola; Adams, Catherine – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: Semantic and inferencing abilities have not been fully examined in children with communication difficulties. Aims: To investigate the inferential and semantic abilities of children with communication difficulties using newly designed tasks. Methods & Procedures: Children with different types of communication disorder were compared with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Task Analysis, Semantics, Pragmatics
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Denne, M.; Langdown, N.; Pring, T.; Roy, P. – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: Recent research has shown that phonological awareness therapy can improve speech production in children with expressive phonological disorders. This approach may be appealing to clinicians as the therapy may also benefit the children's general phonological abilities and lead to gains in their literacy skills. Aims: To examine the…
Descriptors: Therapy, Speech Communication, Literacy, Phonology
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Vance, Maggie; Stackhouse, Joy; Wells, Bills – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: In recent years, clinicians have been using a psycholinguistic approach to the assessment and remediation of children's developmental speech disorders. This requires the comparison of a child's performance across a range of speech-production tasks. Aims: To describe the profile of performance across different speech-production tasks in…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Speech Communication, Speech Impairments, Young Children
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Horowitz, Laura; Jansson, Liselotte; Ljungberg, Tomas; Hedenbro, Monica – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: Children with language impairment (LI) experience social difficulties, including conflict management. This paper is therefore motivated to examine behavioural processes guiding preschool peer conflict progression, which ultimately contributes to overall development. Aims: To describe behavioural sequences in conflicts between children…
Descriptors: Intervention, Play, Males, Language Acquisition
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Bryan, Karen – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2004
Background: There are no systematic surveys of the UK prison population, but data from several sources suggest that a significant number of prisoners might have limitations in their speech, language and communication abilities. Aim: To examine the hypothesis that compared with the general population, a significantly larger number of the prison…
Descriptors: Grammar, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Language Skills
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Adams, Catherine; Lloyd, Julian – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: The preliminary phase of a project aimed at establishing appropriate outcome measures for intervention with children who have pragmatic language impairments (PLI) is reported. Assessment methods for children with PLI are considered in the context of developing outcome measures for intervention studies. Communicative function…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Methods, Intervention, Discourse Analysis