Sentences Are Key: Helping School-Age Children and Adolescents Build Sentence Skills Needed for Real Language.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In this article, we present key concepts pointing to the importance of targeting complex sentences for school-age children and adolescents with developmental language disorders (DLD). Drawing on current treatment research, we argue that the sentence is a crucial but often neglected piece of the puzzle when it comes to understanding relationships between DLD and academic outcomes. We provide detailed suggestions for how clinicians can focus on complex sentence structures in natural academic contexts to bridge this gap.

Method

Background information on sentence complexity is presented, along with a rationale for targeting complex sentences with school-age children and adolescents with DLD. Intervention methods from a variety of studies targeting multiclausal sentences

SUBMITTER: Balthazar CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11001191 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature