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Effects of adult communication behaviors on language-impaired children's verbal output

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Rebecca Moellman-Landa  and
Lesley B. Olswang
Rebecca Moellman-Landa*
Affiliation:
University of Washington
Lesley B. Olswang
Affiliation:
University of Washington
*
Rebecca Moellman-Landa, University of Washington, Department of Speech, and Hearing Sciences, JG-15, 1417 N.B. 42nd Street, Seattle, WA 98195
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Abstract

The presence and effect of adult communication behaviors that reportedly facilitate children's verbal output were examined in clinician's and mothers' interaction with seven language-impaired children using a lag sequential analysis. Two language samples were collected from each child, one each by the clinician and mother of the child. Consecutive adult and child utterances were coded to identify adults' sharing of child's focus, child utterance length, adult utterance type, topic maintenance, lexical contingency, and time between utterances. Mothers were found to use facilitative communication behaviors more often than the children. Adults' ‘facilitative’ behaviors had limited effect on children's immediate output. Implications for assessing mothers' input to language-impaired children and eliciting language samples efficiently are discussed.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , August 1984 , pp. 117 - 133
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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