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Ben Maassen; Hayo Terband – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Background: Children with speech sound disorders (SSD) form a heterogeneous group, with respect to severity, etiology, proximal causes, speech error characteristics, and response to treatment. Infants develop speech and language in interaction with neurological maturation and general perceptual, motoric, and cognitive skills in a social-emotional…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Speech Impairments, Children, Language Acquisition
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Ingrid Singer; Ellen Gerrits; Jan Willem Gorter; Margreet Luinge – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
Children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) may experience barriers to communicative participation. Communicative participation is defined as 'participation in life situations in which knowledge, information, ideas or feelings are exchanged'. Barriers experienced in communicative participation cannot be explained by language competence…
Descriptors: Speech Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Counselor Attitudes
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Alighieri, Cassandra; Bettens, Kim; Bruneel, Laura; D'haeseleer, Evelien; Van Gaever, Ellen; Van Lierde, Kristiane – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of two different speech therapy approaches, a traditional motor-phonetic approach and a linguistic-phonological approach, on the speech and health-related quality of life in Dutch-speaking children with a cleft palate with or without a cleft lip (CP ± L) between 4 and 12 years old.…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Speech Therapy, Congenital Impairments, Patients
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Zwitserlood, Rob; Wijnen, Frank; Weerdenburg, Marjolijn; Verhoeven, Ludo – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: Currently, most research on the effective treatment of morphosyntax in children with specific language impairment (SLI) pertains to younger children. In the last two decades, several studies have provided evidence that intervention for older school-age children with SLI can be effective. These metalinguistic intervention approaches…
Descriptors: Children, Syntax, Language Impairments, Intervention
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Wijkamp, Inge; Gerritsen, Betsy; Bonder, Freke; Haisma, Hinke; van der Schans, Cees – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010
In the Netherlands, many educators and care providers working at special schools for children with severe speech and language impairments (SSLI) use sign-supported Dutch (SSD) to facilitate communication. Anecdotal experiences suggest positive results, but empirical evidence is lacking. In this multiple case study the changes that occur in the way…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Intervals, Classroom Communication, Language Impairments
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Tijms, Jurgen – Educational Psychology, 2007
Two experiments were conducted to provide a window on the processes by which the accuracy and rate of reading develop during psycholinguistic treatment for dyslexia. In experiment 1,140 children with dyslexia followed a treatment method that presented them with a learning system that clarifies the basic elements and operations by which one's…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Reading Fluency, Oral Language, Dyslexia