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Training Phoneme Blending Skills in Children with Down Syndrome
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Burgoyne, Kelly; Duff, Fiona; Snowling, Maggie; Buckley, Sue; Hulme, Charles – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
This article reports the evaluation of a 6-week programme of teaching designed to support the development of phoneme blending skills in children with Down syndrome (DS). Teaching assistants (TAs) were trained to deliver the intervention to individual children in daily 10-15-minute sessions, within a broader context of reading and language…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Speech Therapy, Phonemes, Intervention
Efficacy of a Reading and Language Intervention for Children with Down Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Burgoyne, Kelly; Duff, Fiona J.; Clarke, Paula J.; Buckley, Sue; Snowling, Margaret J.; Hulme, Charles – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: This study evaluates the effects of a language and literacy intervention for children with Down syndrome. Methods: Teaching assistants (TAs) were trained to deliver a reading and language intervention to children in individual daily 40-min sessions. We used a waiting list control design, in which half the sample received the…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Language Skills