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Kover, Sara T.; Weismer, Susan Ellis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: Vocabulary is a domain of particular challenge for many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Recent research has drawn attention to ways in which lexical characteristics relate to vocabulary acquisition. The current study tested the hypothesis that lexical characteristics account for variability in vocabulary size of young…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Expressive Language
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Marchman, Virginia A.; Wulfeck, Beverly; Weismer, Susan Ellis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1999
Comparison of English past-tense productivity in 31 school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 31 children with no language (NL) impairment found SLI children made more errors, with a greater proportion resulting from overuse of unmarked grammatical forms (e.g., "go") than from suffixation (e.g., "goed"). Children with SLI…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition