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Sentence Production and Sentence Repetition in Autistic Adolescents and Young Adults: Linguistic Sensitivity to Finiteness Marking
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Teresa Girolamo; Samantha Ghali; Caroline Larson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Despite the clinical utility of sentence production and sentence repetition to identify language impairment in autism, little is known about the extent to which these tasks are sensitive to potential language variation. One promising method is strategic scoring, which has good clinical utility for identifying language impairment in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Repetition, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescents
Cognitive and Linguistic Effects of Narrative-Based Language Intervention in Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Pauls, Laura J.; Archibald, Lisa M. D. – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2021
Background and aims: Narrative-based language intervention provides a naturalistic context for targeting overall story structure and specific syntactic goals in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Given the cognitive demands of narratives, narrative-based language intervention also has the potential to positively impact related…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Children, Preadolescents, Intervention
Internationally Adopted Children in the Early School Years: Relative Strengths and Weaknesses in Language Abilities
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Glennen, Sharon – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2015
Purpose: This study aimed to determine the relative strengths and weaknesses in language and verbal short-term memory abilities of school-age children who were adopted from Eastern Europe. Method: Children adopted between 1;0 and 4;11 (years;months) of age were assessed with the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Preschool, Second…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adoption, Language Aptitude, Language Skills
Sentence Repetition in Children with Specific Language Impairment: An Investigation of Underlying Mechanisms
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Riches, Nick G. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: Sentence repetition (SR) is a reliable clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI). However, little is known about cognitive processes underpinning SR, or areas of breakdown in children with SLI. Aims: The study investigated which cognitive mechanisms were most closely involved in SR performance: syntactic knowledge,…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Sentences, Repetition, Children
Sentence Repetition in Adolescents with Specific Language Impairments and Autism: An Investigation of Complex Syntax
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Riches, N. G.; Loucas, T.; Baird, G.; Charman, T.; Simonoff, E. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background: Recent studies have indicated that many children with autism spectrum disorders present with language difficulties that are similar to those of children with specific language impairments, leading some to argue for similar structural deficits in these two disorders. Aims: Repetition of sentences involving long-distance dependencies was…
Descriptors: Sentences, Repetition, Syntax, Autism
Expressive and Receptive Language Effects of African American English on a Sentence Imitation Task
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Terry, J. Michael; Jackson, Sandra C.; Evangelou, Evangelos; Smith, Richard L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
This study tests the extent to which giving credit for African American English (AAE) responses on a General American English sentence imitation test mitigates dialect effects. Forty-eight AAE-speaking second graders completed the Recalling Sentences subtest of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition (1995). A Bayesian…
Descriptors: Sentences, Black Dialects, Markov Processes, Syntax