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G Holdgrafer

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PubMed1996

Syntactic abilities of neurologically normal and suspect preterm children.

This study examined the syntactic abilities of neurologically normal and suspect preterm children at preschool age to characterize their language skills and to assess specific differences between groups. The Index of Productive Syntax was used to score language transcripts. The children exhibited reduced syntactic performance, particularly in the use of questions, negatives, and complex sentence structure. Children considered to be neurologically suspect had more difficulty with development of verb phrases than did neurologically normal children.

Brain Damage, Chronic↗
PubMed1995

Language abilities of neurologically normal and suspect preterm children now in preschool.

Multiple aspects of speech and language performance of 29 four- to five-year-old preterm children (10 neurologically suspect) were assessed. Data were collected using a variety of measures including standardized tests and analysis of language samples. Each child's performance was compared with reference data on the various outcomes which yielded an over-all pass score and individual profiles of performance. Neurologically normal children had significantly higher passing scores than suspect children but appeared to be at risk for mild language delays, particularly in morphosyntactic development. Neurologically suspect children appeared to be at risk for moderate and more generalized language delays, including morphosyntactic and phonological development.

Brain Damage, Chronic↗
PubMed1995

Relationships among language domains in preterm children.

Measures of performance in phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics were obtained from the language samples of 29 preterm children at preschool age. A correlation of .43 was found between measures of phonology and syntax but other significant relationships were not found. Results are discussed relative to other research.

Articulation Disorders↗
PubMed1995

Relationships between measures of phonological performance in preterm children.

Percent Consonants Correct (PCC) was computed for spontaneous connected speech samples and responses on a single-word articulation test from 29 preterm children in preschool. Maturity of speech motor control was also assessed. Moderate intercorrelations of all measures are mentioned with regard to clinical implications.

Articulation Disorders↗
PubMed1995

Comparison of two methods for scoring syntactic complexity.

Summary scores for Developmental Sentence Scoring and the Index of Productive Syntax were obtained from the language samples of 29 preterm children at preschool age. A moderate correlation obtained between these two measures of syntactic complexity. Only Index of Productive Syntax scores distinguished the language abilities of 19 neurologically normal from 10 suspect children.

Brain↗
PubMed1994

Informativeness, imitation, and language play: factors in word learning.

11 normally developing children of 20 to 24 months of age were taught a nonsense word under informative and increasingly routine conditions. Modelling was the teaching procedure. There were significantly more spontaneous productions of the new word in the informative condition than in the most routine condition for most of the children. This was also true for the familiar words presented. Significantly more language play in the form of repetitions was exhibited for the new word than with familiar words by 10 children, indicating that language play is a strategy for acquiring new words. Only 5 children used imitation of the model as an acquisition strategy. Modest support for the effects of informativeness is provided. Other motivations for word use are discussed as well as clinical implications of these results.

Attention↗
PubMed1981

Mode-relations in language learning by language-deficient retarded subjects.

The relationship between language comprehension and production was examined with two severely language-deficient retarded subjects who were taught the plural form /z/. Comprehension and production were trained concurrently with different words in each mode until correct plural use occurred in the untrained mode for each word. Subsequent training of reversed plural use in comprehension for one subject and production for the other failed to result in reversed plural use in the untrained modes for those words. This mode-independence contrasted with interdependence displayed by normal children in earlier study using similar procedures. The results are discussed in relation to the normal developmental process and the possible deviation from it.

Adolescent↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Early communication development in children with Rett syndrome.

This retrospective pilot study investigated the course of pre-linguistic and linguistic communication development in children with Rett syndrome (RS) from birth to 24 months of age. Parents of 17 children with RS completed a questionnaire based on the Clinical Linguistic Auditory Milestone Scale. No child exceeded single word use and most children had begun to regress. Pre-regression delay was in evidence along with limited intentional gestural communication as a precursor to single word use. Limited use of communicative gestures is suggested as a possible early predictor of RS pending further investigation.

Child, Preschool↗