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Communication/Interaction Development At Mealtimes For the Multiply Handicapped Child: Implications For Use of Augmentative Communication Systems

The mealtime setting can be creatively used by the speech-language pathologist to increase the positive interactions between the child and caregiver and to establish the basic prerequisites for the...

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Use of Music Activities In Speech-Language Therapy

Musical activities stress nonverbal forms of communication and often surpass physical, cultural, intellectual, and emotional limitations. Actively using music in learning experiences involves the w...

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Use of Narrative-Based Language Intervention With Children Who Have Specific Language Impairment

Ten 7–8-year-old children with specific language impairment participated in a 6-week program of narrative-based language intervention (NBLI) in an effort to evaluate NBLI’s feasibility. Each interv...

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Final Consonant Discrimination In Children: Effects of Phonological Disorder, Vocabulary Size, and Articulatory Accuracy

Preschool-age children with phonological disorders were compared to their typically developing age peers on their ability to discriminate CVC words that differed only in the identity of the final c...

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Emergent Literacy Intervention For Vulnerable Preschoolers

This study determined the relative efficacy of an experimental explicit emergent literacy intervention program for preschoolers experiencing multiple risk factors. Using an alternating treatment re...

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Teaching a Young Child With Autism to Request Assistance Conditionally: A Preliminary Study

Investigators taught a 5-year-old boy with autistic disorder and severe language delay to conditionally use requests for assistance. A within-participant multiple-probe design across 3 functional t...

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Executive Functioning and Social Pragmatic Communication Skills: Exploring the Threads In Our Social Fabric

The development of treatment plans and related strategies to help our students with social pragmatic challenges improve upon their social communicative competencies requires us to explore how Theor...

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WH Question Comprehension and Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder

For students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, there are a variety of processes by which to understand and respond to questions. These include a mismatch of form-question-answer, match of form and que...

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The Effects of Minimal Pairs Treatment On the Speech-Sound Production of Two Children With Phonologic Disorders

Two children whose speech-sound production could be described by phonologic processes were administered a linguistically based treatment program that utilized minimal pair words. A subset of phonem...

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Selective Mutism In Elementary School

Selective mutism is an infrequent phenomenon, often first identified in the school setting. This article presents the historical background for the treatment of selective mutism and current diagnos...

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Examining Social Communication Effects of a Picture Communication Board In a Child With Autism [AAC Study]

This study extends previous research indicating that AAC can quickly increase communication frequency to low-technology, accessible systems. The intervention dosage may have been insufficient to af...

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The Effects of Treatment On Consonant Cluster and Weak Syllable Reduction Processes In Misarticulating Children

In a multiple baseline across behaviors design, two children with articulation errors were trained to suppress the phonological processes of weak syllable reduction and consonant cluster reduction....

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Subject Pronoun and Article Omissions In the Speech of Children With Specific Language Impairment

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their MLU-matched normally developing (ND) peers imitated proper nouns, the pronouns he and you, and the article the in subject phrases. Althoug...

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Substitution Errors In the Production of Word-Initial and Word-Final Consonant Clusters

Although previous studies have suggested that most cluster substitutions can be predicted from the errors children make on the corresponding singletons, our findings indicate that almost one third ...

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Phonological Awareness Intervention: Beyond the Basics

SLPs have a unique contribution to make in school-based teams' efforts to facilitate literacy development in children, particularly children who are at risk for reading disability. Research provide...

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The Acquisition of Fricatives and Affricates: Evidence From a Disordered Phonological System

This study describes the acquisition of the entire fricative and affricate sound classes by a child with a disordered phonological system and other co-occurring conditions. Pretreatment, the partic...

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Incidence of Fronting In Preschool Children

The speech of 1,048 children between the ages of 31 and 54 months was screened for the presence of velar and palatal forms of the phonological process of fronting. Sixty-seven children, 6% of the s...

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