The paper discusses some principles derived from the normal language development process that could be incorporated into a naturalistic approach for facilitating early language development in language delayed children. (SB)

This short essay encourages speech-language pathologists to consider cooperative learning as a useful tool for group therapy situations. (Author)

A speech/language remediation-intervention model is proposed to enhance processing of auditory information in students with language or learning disabilities. Such children have difficulty attending to language signals (verbal and nonverbal responses ranging from facial expressions and gestures to those requiring the generation of complex…

The authors suggest the importance of systematic planning of the antecedent event in speech and language therapy with children. (Author)

The article proposes a reeducation program for conduction aphasics with reproductive difficulties. Program characteristics include analysis and manipulation of visual stimuli (written words and syllables), suppression of the compensation effect of the spared lexical-semantic system; and progressive increase in length and complexity of phonological…

Three methods for evaluating change in the spontaneous language of aphasic subjects were compared. Clinical judgments of experienced speech language pathologists showed excellent agreement with the Shewan Spontaneous Language Analysis (SSLA) and less agreement with the Western Aphasia Battery. The SSLA was found to provide the most comprehensive…

The paper describes a study on language interactions between young, newly verbal, language handicapped children and mothers. Components of a project are delineated and data from the original study are reported. Implications for using the approach combined with traditional speech therapy are discussed. (Author/CL)

Speech-language clinicians should offer specific suggestions to classroom teachers for dealing with language handicapped children. Suggestions may touch upon listening behavior, classroom emotional climate, as well as specific techniques for talking with children (modeling, expatiation, expansion). Specific activity ideas may also be offered. (CL)

The article reviews common misconceptions about oral pharyngeal structure and function and suggests the need for more adequate training in order to make more reliable decisions about the adequacy of the speech mechanism. (CL)

A speech therapist discusses an approach that combines articulation and language skills beginning with sounds and progressing through multisensory activities to words, phrases, sentences, controlled conversation, and free-flowing conversation. The approach uses therapy based in speech therapy's historical foundations. (CL)

A language development program for a 6-year-old boy with limited language development combined an operant approach in the foster home, where both parents were speech clinicians, and daily 3-hour therapy sessions at a university speech and hearing clinic. (KW)

The study with 64 speech-language clinicians and their 32 supervisors found that clinicians demonstrated greater completion of commitments made in supervisory conferences when written agreements were used and when the specific behaviors of supervisees could be followed and measured over time. Written agreements were more effective with beginning…

Changes in frequency of occurrence of the following linguistic variables in recovery from aphasia due to left temporal lobe lesions are analyzed in text and graphs: (1) quantity of verbalization, (2) syntactic structure: subject-verb-object vs. topic-comment, (3) syntactic complexity, (4) nouns and verbs, (5) morphology, (6) anaphora, and (7)…

Eight speech clinicians responded to questionnaires and audiotapes designed to analyze clinician-child discourse in a language remediation setting with 5- to 8-year-old language delayed children. (Author/CL)

Examined was the influence of syntax and articulation treatment programs on the speech and language improvement of 24 children (5-6 years old) with multiple linguistic problems. (Author/CL)