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Speech Timing and Pausing in Children with Specific Language Impairment
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Smith, Allan B.; Hall, Nancy E.; Tan, Xiaomei; Farrell, Katharine – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Articulation rate, speaking rate, as well as the duration and location of pauses, were analysed in 10 children with specific language impairment (SLI) and a comparison group of seven younger children producing utterances of similar lengths. Children with SLI were significantly slower in articulation rate, but not speaking rate or pausing time,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Articulation (Speech), Matched Groups
Implications of Scoring Community Speech Patterns on Oral Reading Assessments
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Agee, Nicole S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Cultural sensitivity and responsiveness are being advocated in reading assessments to reduce the impact of community speech patterns (CSP) on the accuracy of miscue analysis. This study, motivated by a high incidence of retention in 1st grade in a local school district, investigated whether CSP among students affected reading outcomes and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Speech Habits, Cultural Awareness, Reading Tests
"Should I Let Them Talk?": Private Speech and Task Performance among Preschool Children with and without Behavior Problems
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Winsler, Adam; Manfra, Louis; Diaz, Rafael M. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007
Preschool and kindergarten teachers must make decisions everyday about how much to allow their children to talk out loud to themselves during various classroom activities. The present study examines the effects of children's private speech use on task performance for a group of behaviorally at-risk children and a group of control children during a…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Class Activities, Learning Activities