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Peer reviewedGrela, Bernard G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
The language transcripts of seven children with Down syndrome (DS) and seven typically developing children with comparable mean length of utterance levels were compared for verb argument structure. Findings suggest that syntactic difficulties may delay children with DS in overcoming the optional subject phenomena and the lesser number of anomalous…
Descriptors: Child Development, Down Syndrome, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedKoegel, Lynn Kern; Carter, Cynthia M.; Koegel, Robert L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
A study assessed whether two children (ages 4-6) with autism could be taught a child-initiated query as a pivotal response to facilitate the use of grammatical morphemes. Children learned the strategy and acquired and generalized the targeted morpheme. Children also showed increases in mean length of utterance and verb acquisition. (Contains…
Descriptors: Autism, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Grammar
