Individual Versus Small Group Treatment of Morphological Errors for Children With Developmental Language Disorder.

ABSTRACT: Purpose This study examines the effects of enhanced conversational recast for treating morphological errors in preschoolers with developmental language disorder. The study assesses the effectiveness of this treatment in an individual or group ( n = 2) setting and the possible benefits of exposing a child to his or her partner's treatment target in addition to his or her own. Method Twenty children were assigned to either an individual ( n = 10) or group ( n = 10, 2 per group) condition. Each child received treatment for 1 morpheme (the target morpheme) for approximately 5 weeks. Children in the group condition had a different target from their treatment partner. Pretreatment and end treatment probes were used to compare correct usage of the target morpheme and a control morpheme. For child

SUBMITTER: Eidsvag SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6802871 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature