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Petersen, Douglas B.; Gillam, Sandra Laing; Spencer, Trina; Gillam, Ronald B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: This study investigated the effect of a literate narrative intervention on the macrostructural and microstructural language features of the oral narratives of 3 children with neuromuscular impairment and co-morbid receptive and expressive language impairment. Method: Three children, ages 6-8 years, participated in a multiple baseline…
Descriptors: Young Children, Intervention, Neurological Impairments, Language Impairments
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Ukrainetz, Teresa A.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: This study investigated the expressive elaboration of narratives from children with specific language impairment (SLI). Method: Forty-eight 6- and 8-year-old children with SLI were compared with forty-eight 6- and 8-year-old typical language (TL) children. Two imaginative narratives were scored for 14 elements of expressive elaboration in…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Language Impairments, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Hayward, Denyse V.; Gillam, Ronald B.; Lien, Phuong – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: The script frameworks model (R. Schank, 1975) and causal network model (T. Trabasso & L. Sperry, 1985) were used to assess script-based story retellings of children with and without language impairments (LI). When retelling scripts and stories, children developing typically include (a) more obligatory than optional elements, with few…
Descriptors: Scripts, Story Grammar, Language Impairments, Reading Comprehension