Exploring the effects of a repair strategies training program among children with auditory processing disorder: A pilot study.

Objectives: Children with hearing loss, as well as those with auditory processing disorder (APD), experience more communication difficulties than their normal-hearing peers. Receiving training on communication strategies has been shown to be beneficial for children with hearing loss, but little is known on the effect of such training on children with APD. The main purpose of this pilot study was to assess the effects of a repair strategies training program among children with APD.

Bilingual Adolescents' Complex Syntax Production in Both Languages Across Conversational and Expository Contexts.

Purpose: Bilingual development has been shown to be highly dependent on language-specific exposure. This study extended the study of bilingual development to adolescence and to the production of complex syntax in two contexts: conversation and expository discourse.

Method: English-French bilinguals (EFbil; = 27) and French L1 speakers ( = 14) aged 12 to 17 years produced French and English conversational and expository samples.

Does Efficacy Equal Lasting Impact? A Study of Intervention Short Term Gains, Impact on Diagnostic Status, and Association with Background Variables.

Objective: This article examines the efficacy of language intervention services for monolingual and immigrant children in a public clinic in Montreal, Canada. Intervention is provided in French for a preset number of sessions regardless of intervention needs. The study assessed immediate gains after intervention, their maintenance over 2 months, and their effect on diagnostic status at both time points.