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Senent-Capuz, Nuria; Fortea, Inmaculada Baixauli; Perales, María J. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2022
This study sought to assess the social validity of "It Takes Two to Talk (ITTT)"®--the Hanen Program for parents, delivered to families of children with language delays in Valencia, Spain. Social validity was assessed using a multi-method approach--questionnaires (filled out by the parents) and a focus group--at different times during…
Descriptors: Validity, Program Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Delayed Speech
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Thomas, Anne E.; Marvin, Christine A. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2016
Program monitoring is an important and necessary assessment practice within the field of early childhood deaf education. Effective program monitoring requires a focus on both the consistent implementation of intervention strategies (fidelity) and the assessment of children's ongoing progress in response to interventions (progress monitoring).…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Deafness, Early Intervention, Progress Monitoring
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Blaiser, Kristina M.; Nelson, Peggy B.; Kohnert, Kathryn – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
This study examines the impact of repeated exposures on word learning of preschool children with and without hearing loss (HL) in quiet and noise conditions. Participants were 19 children with HL and 17 peers with normal hearing (NH). Children were introduced to 16 words: 8 in quiet and 8 in noise conditions. Production and identification scores…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Acoustics, Educational Environment, Deafness
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Zhang, Yiwen; Xu, Xiaojuan; Jiang, Fan; Gilkerson, Jill; Xu, Dongxin; Richards, Jeffrey A.; Harnsberger, James; Topping, Keith J. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
Changes in natural language environments of families receiving quantitative language feedback in Shanghai were investigated. Volunteer parents of 22 children aged 5 to 30 months were recruited from a hospital and a learning center. Quantitative measures of adult word count and conversational turns with children were collected regularly over 6…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Child Caregivers, Young Children, Parent Child Relationship
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Culatta, Barbara; Hall, Kendra; Kovarsky, Dana; Theadore, Geraldine – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2007
In a federally funded early literacy project, various instructional activities were embedded into an array of classroom contexts to provide supplemental literacy instruction and to contrast children's engagement and participation in different contexts and participant structures. The study was conducted with English- and Spanish-speaking children…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Rhyme, Emergent Literacy, Classroom Environment
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Hill, John W.; Coufal, Kathy L. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2005
A language-based social skills instruction intervention used to prepare middle and high school students with emotional/behavioral disorders for return to less restrictive public school placements was evaluated. The daily 50-minute intervention focused on repetitive readings, recitations, and role-playing of skill step procedures until students…
Descriptors: Intervention, Communication Disorders, Behavior Disorders, Middle School Students