Publications by authors named "M Appenzeller"
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the ability of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) to infer word class and meaning from text and to document variations by word class (noun, verb, adjective) and modality (listening, reading). We also asked whether the children could integrate global cues across the entire passage as well as local cues from the immediate sentence frame to support inferences.
Method: Fourth graders with DLD ( = 28) and typical language development (TLD; = 41) read and listened to expository texts and guessed the noun, verb, and adjective removed from each.
Purpose: This study examined the effectiveness of Caregivers Optimizing Achievement of Children With Hearing Loss (COACH), an intervention in which parents were taught naturalistic interaction strategies that addressed the unique linguistic input needs of their young children with hearing loss.
Method: A single-subject multiple-baseline across-behaviors design was used with four caregiver-child dyads to determine the effects of COACH training on caregivers' use of the COACH language facilitation strategies and on their children's language abilities.
Results: A functional relation was demonstrated between teaching of strategies and caregivers' use of the strategies across three dyads with slower, consistent changes observed in a fourth dyad.