Abstract Language and literacy skills were assessed in 83 8 1/2 ‐year olds whose language development had been impaired at 4 years of age. Provided that problems resolved by age 5 years, was normal, but many the children who still verbal deficits did have reading difficulties persisting oral impairments later on. In these children, comprehension tended to be poor relative accuracy. Syntactic competence preschool period accounted for a substantial proportion variance attainments, after...

Background: Psychosocial treatments are the mainstay of management autism in UK but there is a notable lack systematic evidence base for their effectiveness. Randomised controlled trial (RCT) studies this area have been rare essential because developmental heterogeneity disorder. We aimed to test new theoretically based social communication intervention targeting parental randomised design against routine care alone. Methods: The was given addition existing and involved regular monthly...

Abstract Background: Children who show disproportionate difficulty with the pragmatic as compared structural aspects of language are described having impairment (PLI) or social communication disorder (SCD). Some children have PLI also mild impairments associated high‐functioning autism spectrum (ASD). There is little robust evidence effectiveness speech–language interventions which target language, needs these children. Aims: To evaluate an intensive manualized intervention (SCIP) for...

Cathy Adams introduced the 2021 workshop on YouTube https://youtu.be/WTMUhULWyh4 In this video she explains something of breadth PoP's applications to research our students or colleagues everyday lived experiences. The workshop's method relies heavily ideas from phenomenology's originary contributors but emphasis is not philosophy, rather learning by doing phenomenology. begins with a didactic session cover some core phenomenological understandings, taking in questions such as, 'what exactly...

Case Alex, with Sturge-Weber Syndrome affecting the left hemisphere, failed to develop speech throughout early boyhood, and his comprehension of single words simple commands remained stagnant at an age equivalent 3-4 years. But then, following hemidecortication 8.5 years withdrawal anticonvulsants when he was more than 9 old, Alex suddenly began acquire language. He also showed unusual degree residual motor capacity on right side. Alex's remarkable progress in learning language, development...

A group of 61 schoolchildren with specific language impairment (SLI) was compared a control on comprehension task, in which the child questioned about story that had been presented either orally or as series pictures. Half questions were literal, requiring to provide detail mentioned shown explicitly story. The remainder required make an inference what not directly stated. SLI children impaired this even after taking into account "comprehension age," assessed multiple-choice test. However,...

ABSTRACT Independent raters scanned transcribed conversations from 57 language‐impaired children and 67 control aged 4 to 12 years identified instances where the normal flow of conversation appeared be disrupted because child's utterance was in some way inappropriate. It found that adequate inter‐rater reliability could obtained using this procedure. Furthermore, test‐retest correlations for inappropriacy were significant, indicating is a stable conversational characteristic. The measure...

Developmental disorders of language and communication present considerable diagnostic challenges due to overlapping symptomatology uncertain aetiology. We aimed further elucidate the behavioural linguistic profile associated with impairments social occurring outside an autism diagnosis.Six eleven year olds diagnosed pragmatic impairment (PLI), high functioning (HFA) or specific (SLI) were compared on measures interaction peers (PI), restricted repetitive behaviours/interests (RRBIs) ability....

Eighteen children with specific language impairment (SLI), from 6 to 8 years of age, were compared 9 control matched on age and nonverbal ability (CA controls) younger comparable level (LA controls). Half the SLI group rated a teacher checklist as having pragmatic difficulties: these referred (PLI) group; remainder typical (SLI-T) group. Children's responses adult soliciting utterances compared. All usually responded conversational solicitations, but in PLI more likely than give no response,...

Background: Social communication problems in individuals who have Asperger syndrome constitute one of the most significant syndrome. This study makes a systematic analysis difficulties demonstrated with use language (pragmatics) adolescents Method: Recent advances discourse were applied to conversational samples from group children and matched control severe conduct disorder. Two types conversation sampled each group, differing emotional content. Results: The results showed that these...

ABSTRACT Conversational samples were obtained from 57 children aged 8 to 12 years with specific language impairment, and 67 control 4 years. Fourteen of the language‐impaired fitted clinical description semantic‐pragmatic disorder. It was found that exchange structure, turntaking, conversational repair use cohesive devices could be assessed adequate inter‐rater test‐retest reliability. Children disorder produced more initiations than other children. Some these also violated turntaking rules...

Semantic and inferencing abilities have not been fully examined in children with communication difficulties.To investigate the inferential semantic of difficulties using newly designed tasks.Children different types disorder were compared each other three groups typically developing children: those same chronological age two younger children. In total, 25 aged 11 years specific language impairment 22 children, also age, primary pragmatic recruited. Typically (n=35; age-match), 9 (n=40) 7...

Abstract Sixty‐one children, aged 3;6‐5;0, with developmental phonological disorders (PD) participated in a study comparing the effects of metaphonologically (MET) or articulation‐based (ART) therapy. Maturational were controlled for by inclusion 59 normally speaking control children same age range. Measures (speech) output and awareness taken before after therapy all subjects at 3 months post‐therapy PD children. Results showed that improved significantly both skills across intervention...

Background: Psychosocial treatments are the mainstay of management autism in UK but there is a notable lack systematic evidence base for their effectiveness. Randomised controlled trial (RCT) studies this area have been rare essential because developmental heterogeneity disorder. We aimed to test new theoretically based social communication intervention targeting parental randomised design against routine care alone. Methods: The was given addition existing and involved regular monthly...

Subtle language and communication difficulties are experienced by many autistic individuals even when they do not have additional learning disabilities. These may affect a person's day-to-day living, social relationships emotional well-being. However, currently, there is much research into this topic. To date, no one has asked children about their own or how feel it affects them. Asking the could provide valuable new insights. In study, 12 (9-14 years), without disability, were interviewed...

ABSTRACT A group of 54 children with specific language impairment was compared a control on referential communication task in which the child asked to describe picture from an array eight similar items so that listener could identify it. The language-impaired performed more poorly than age-matched controls. However, there no relationship between performance and conversational ability. Children who provided excessive irrelevant information conversation did not show same characteristics...

Children of school age with social communication problems form a growing population in need speech-language intervention. These children have difficulty not just interpersonal communication, which underpins peer relations, but also oral and written aspects the curriculum. The importance intervention years therefore cannot be underestimated. In this article, framework rationale for based on consideration as interdependence interaction, cognition, pragmatics, language processing are presented....

Background: Children with language impairments have difficulty in reporting verbal inferences, but it is unclear whether the source of this problem lies limitations comprehension, an inability to access world knowledge, or integration information discourse. pragmatic (CwPLI) are often described as having disproportionate inference, although there little empirical support for view. Aims: To examine performance children specific impairment (CwSLI), CwPLI and a control group typical development...

The current position on speech and language intervention for children who have pragmatic impairment (PLI) is limited by a lack of evidence to support practice. Two outcome case studies with PLI, aimed at establishing efficacy, are presented in this paper Standardized tests conversational sampling were used assess the pre-and post-therapy. Each child received eight weeks intervention, three times week, from specialist therapist. This experi-mental treatment, which was funded as part research...

Two groups of language-impaired children, an 'expressive language impairment' group and a 'development dyspraxic' group, aged between 4 6 years, were assessed on set test sentences designed to tap syntactic comprehension. Expressive was profiled for both experimental groups. A control completed the comprehension only. The results indicate that children with apparently isolated defects expressive syntax do, in fact, have subtle deficits comparison age-matched controls. deficit can be detected...

Abstract Background : The remediation of pragmatic problems forms a significant part the caseload for professionals working with children communication problems. There is little systematic evidence that demonstrates benefits speech and language therapy whose difficulties lie primarily within domain or which indicates whether changes in behaviours, are result specific intervention, can be measured over time. Aims To generate signal change other behaviours impairments; to gauge magnitude...

The aim of this study was to compare the degree frequency separation that is required between tones generate mismatch negativity (MMN) in a group children with specific language impairment (SLI) and comparison group, who had their temporal processing abilities assessed previous experiment. Using 1000Hz standard (85%) 1020, 1050, 1100Hz deviant presented at inter‐stimulus intervals (ISIs) 200 400ms, MMN compared 19 SLI (13 males, six females, age range 7y 4mo−11y 10mo, mean 9y 7mo [SD 1y...

Understanding the nature of language and communication disorders in High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (HFASD) populations may provide insight into why females are more likely than males to go undiagnosed. Language skills were compared between 13 (aged 8.11–11.06) with HFASD. Gender-normative data was also ascertained from 26 typically developing children (TD) matched for age gender. All had typical range PIQ, slight variation here controlled analysis. Results show outperforming...