Clinical Characteristics Associated With Stuttering Persistence: A Meta-Analysis.

Purpose The purpose of this meta-analytic study was to identify clinical characteristics, defined as child factors that can be assessed by a speech-language pathologist as part of a routine speech-language evaluation that may differentiate children who persist in stuttering from children who eventually recover from stuttering. Clinical characteristics explored included sex, age at onset, family history of stuttering, stuttering frequency and severity, speech-language skills, and temperament. Method Studies were identified through electronic databases, journals, and reference lists of relevant reports (e.

Individualized Narrative Intervention for School-Age Children With Specific Language Impairment.

Purpose This study extends the research on narrative intervention by evaluating the effect of a standard treatment protocol, (Petersen & Spencer, 2012), on personal narrative generations of school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI). Method Four second-grade, 8- to 9-year-old boys with SLI participated in this multiple baseline across behaviors, single-case design study that was repeated across participants. Each one-on-one intervention session involved eight steps across two intervention segments: story retell and personal story generation.

Spoken fictional narrative and literacy skills of children with Down syndrome.

Background: Children with Down syndrome (DS) exhibit below average nonverbal intelligence and impaired language skills; however, their spoken narrative production is a relative strength.

Aims: We examined expressive language skills produced during fictional narrative retells and analyzed the unique contribution of expressive language skills to word-level reading and reading comprehension of children with DS.

Methods And Procedures: The microstructure and macrostructure of fifteen, 8- to 18-year-old children with DS's narrative retells were analyzed.