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Peer reviewedLuetke-Stahlman, Barbara – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1989
Four steps in facilitating pragmatic language development in young hearing-impaired students are discussed, including identifying communication behaviors, coding a child's conversation, putting the school environment to work, and charting progress. A pragmatic communication skills taxonomy and a grid of age-linked pragmatic communication skills…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics
Peer reviewedHilton, Laurence M.; Mumma, Karen – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1991
The study compared results of the Preschool Language Scale, administered to 214 rural and 214 suburban children in Nebraska. Both groups scored above age level, but a higher percentage of rural children failed a wide range of verbal ability and auditory comprehension items. The scale did not meet criteria for nonbiased, ecologically valid…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedSwinson, Jeremy; Ellis, Chris – British Journal of Special Education, 1988
Stories were read daily at school and home to 32 children, aged 3-10, with severe learning difficulties. After eight months, almost all of the children showed improvements in verbal comprehension greater than gains of a comparison group, and the older children showed improvements in verbal expression. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Intervention, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedSkarakis-Doyle, Elizabeth; Mullin, Kathleen – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1990
The performance of 24 language-disordered children (ages 3-8) on an ambiguity detection task was compared to that of children matched for comprehension level and children matched for cognitive level. It is concluded that communicative factors, both active primary comprehension and social communicative knowledge, had a stronger influence than the…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedNorris, Marylee K.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1989
An adaptation of the Hannah-Gardner Test of Verbal and Nonverbal Language Functioning was developed to be used in screening the language skills of 540 low-income Black, English-dominant Hispanic, and Anglo preschool children. The procedures used to calculate local norms and other issues involved in screening minority populations are discussed.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Handicap Identification, Learning Disabilities, Limited English Speaking
Peer reviewedFlowers, Patricia J.; Costa-Giomi, Eugenia – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1991
Assesses children's ability to indicate verbally and nonverbally their awareness of two-octave pitch shifts in a familiar song. Compares abilities of English- and Spanish-speaking children by age and by native language. Discovers older children indicate changes more proficiently whereas Spanish-speaking children respond less often. Finds many…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Training
