Tense and Agreement Morphemes in the Speech of Children With Specific Language Impairment During Intervention: Phase 2

Leonard, Laurence B.; Camarata, Stephen; Pawłowska, Monika; Brown, Barbara; Camarata, Mary

doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2006/054)

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“…However, the present study indicated that generalization of morpheme use can be seen in less than 8 weeks. In addition, accuracy for elicited generalization probes obtained in the present study was comparable to those seen after 6 months of treatment in Leonard et al (2006). If this finding generalizes to larger studies of children with cochlear implants, this method could prove to be a relatively efficient means of producing change in morpheme use for these children.…”

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“…The children in their studies made greater gains in use of the grammatical target after 10 months of treatment than the children who received treatment for 5 months. In addition, Leonard, Camarata, Brown, and Camarata (2004) and Leonard et al (2006) used conversational recast treatment for a total of 48 sessions over 3 months, and then continued to a total of 96 intervention sessions over 6 months. Children showed modest gains after 3 months but continued to improve with additional time.…”

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Feasibility of a Recasting and Auditory Bombardment Treatment With Young Cochlear Implant Users

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2016

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Purpose: There is little to guide clinicians in terms of evidence-based interventions for children with cochlear implants who demonstrate morpheme errors. This feasibility study tested the utility of a treatment targeting grammatical morpheme errors. Method: Three children (ages 4-5 years) received Enhanced Conversational Recast treatment, a version of conversational recast treatment that focuses on a single morpheme error at a time, emphasizes attention to clinician input, and uses high linguistic variability with clinician input. A period of recasting was followed by 24 auditory presentations of the target morpheme in short sentences. After an initial baseline period, children were treated in individual sessions over 21-26 days.Results: All children showed improved use of targeted grammatical morpheme use, both in elicited contexts and in terms of spontaneous use. Spontaneous use was best for the 2 children who were implanted earliest and whose audiograms showed the best hearing postimplant. Performance by a 3rd child diagnosed with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder was more variable but still showed positive change. Conclusions:The results indicate that the treatment can be effective for children with cochlear implants. The pattern of results across children also suggests potential variables that may moderate treatment effects.

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Feasibility of a Recasting and Auditory Bombardment Treatment With Young Cochlear Implant Users

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2016

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“…The first two phases were presented in this Journal by Leonard, Camarata, Brown, and Camarata (2004) and Leonard, Camarata, Pawłowska, Brown, and Camarata (2006).…”

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“…In the previous studies (Leonard et al, 2004;Leonard et al, 2006), children with SLI aged 3 to 4 years participated in one of two treatment conditions. One condition focused on the target morpheme third person singular -s; the other condition centered on the target morphemes auxiliary is/are/was.…”

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The Acquisition of Tense and Agreement Morphemes by Children With Specific Language Impairment During Intervention: Phase 3

Leonard

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J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose-The goals of this investigation were to determine whether gains in the use of tense and agreement morphemes by children with specific language impairment (SLI) during a 96-session intervention period would still be evident one month following treatment, and whether these treatment effects would be greater than those seen in children with SLI receiving otherwise similar treatment that did not emphasize tense and agreement morphemes.Method-Thirty-three children with SLI (age 3;0 to 4;8) served as participants. The children participated in one of three treatment conditions. The conditions emphasized third person singular -s, auxiliary is/are/was, or general language stimulation. The children's use of third person singular -s, auxiliary is/are/was, and past tense -ed was assessed through probes administered throughout treatment, and one month later.Results-The children in the conditions that targeted third person singular -s and auxiliary is/ are/was showed significant gains on their respective target morphemes and these gains were maintained one month later. These gains were significantly greater than the gains seen on the same morphemes by the children receiving general language stimulation. For most children, use of the target morphemes did not approach mastery levels by the end of the study.Conclusions-Intervention that emphasizes morphemes that mark both tense and agreement can be relatively successful, with gains still apparent at least one month following intervention.This report presents data from the third phase of a research project on the acquisition of tense and agreement morphemes by children with specific language impairment (SLI) during intervention. The first two phases were presented in this Journal by Leonard, Camarata, Brown, and Camarata (2004) and Leonard, Camarata, Pawłowska, Brown, and Camarata (2006).In the previous studies (Leonard et al., 2004;Leonard et al., 2006), children with SLI aged 3 to 4 years participated in one of two treatment conditions. One condition focused on the target morpheme third person singular -s; the other condition centered on the target morphemes auxiliary is/are/was. (Hereafter, children assigned to these conditions are referred to as the 3S and AUX children, respectively.) All of the children showed limited or no use of these morphemes prior to treatment. Other developmentally appropriate morphemes used rarely if at all by the children were also monitored during this period, but NIH Public Access

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Developmental Language Disorder

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Kamhi

2021

The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders

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Tense and Agreement Morphemes in the Speech of Children With Specific Language Impairment During Intervention: Phase 2

Abstract: Although the results provide clear evidence for intervention effects, it appeared as if maturational factors also played a role. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for treatment and for characterizing development in SLI.

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Feasibility of a Recasting and Auditory Bombardment Treatment With Young Cochlear Implant Users

Feasibility of a Recasting and Auditory Bombardment Treatment With Young Cochlear Implant Users

The Acquisition of Tense and Agreement Morphemes by Children With Specific Language Impairment During Intervention: Phase 3

Developmental Language Disorder

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