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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Case against Diagnosing Developmental Language Disorder by Default: A Single Case Study of Acquired Aphasia Associated with Convulsive Disorder
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Marinac, Julie V.; Harper, Laura – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2009
The aim of this article is to inform the diagnostic knowledge base for professionals working in the field of language disorders when classic symptoms, characteristics and sequences are not found. The information reveals the risk of diagnosis with a developmental language disorder (DLD) by default when no underlying cause can be readily identified.…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Aphasia, Language Impairments, Standardized Tests
Investigating Adult Language Input and Young Children's Responses in Naturalistic Environments: An Observational Framework
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Marinac, Julie V.; Woodyatt, Gail C.; Ozanne, Anne E. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2008
This paper reports the design and trial of an original Observational Framework for quantitative investigation of young children's responses to adult language in their typical language learning environments. The Framework permits recording of both the response expectation of the adult utterances, and the degree of compliance in the child's…
Descriptors: Young Children, Linguistic Input, Observation, Statistical Analysis
Using an Observational Framework to Investigate Adult Language Input to Young Children in a Naturalistic Environment
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Andersen, Claire Elizabeth; Marinac, Julie V. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2007
The correlation between the communicative intent of parents, in terms of their expectation of a response and the response patterns of young children aged 23-25 months during parent-child interactions, was investigated. An Observational Framework was used to code these parameters in interactions between 36 children and their mothers. The children…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Young Children, Multivariate Analysis, Parent Child Relationship