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50 Years of ERIC
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On the Use of Conversation Analysis and Retrospection in Intervention for Children with Language Impairment
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Samuelsson, Christina; Plejert, Charlotta – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2015
Models of speech and language intervention for communicative disabilities vary from structured programmes to more interactive and ecological methods (Fey, 1986). Ideally, a model for intervention should fit the interests and personality of the patient, focus on crucial aspects of speech and language, and be suited to the patient's everyday…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Child Caregivers, Allied Health Personnel
Prosody Intervention: A Single Subject Study of a Swedish Boy with Prosodic Problems
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Samuelsson, Christina – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2011
Swedish has a complicated prosodic system, compared, for example, with English. A large proportion of Swedish children with language impairment (LI) have prosodic problems to some extent. There are few descriptions in the literature of prosody intervention, which means that clinicians must rely on their overall linguistic and therapeutic knowledge…
Descriptors: Intervention, Speech Therapy, Language Impairments, Foreign Countries
Using Conversation Analysis to Study Prosodic Problems in a Child with Language Impairment
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Samuelsson, Christina – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2009
Prosody carries a lot of information relevant for our understanding of spoken messages. In addition, prosody plays an important role in signalling attitudes and emotions. Prosodic features also constitute an important resource that participants use to achieve mutual understanding in interaction. The aim of this study was to point to possible…
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Impairments, Testing, Language Tests
On the Relationship between Prosody and Pragmatic Ability in Swedish Children with Language Impairment
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Samuelsson, Christina; Nettelbladt, Ulrika; Lofqvist, Anders – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2005
A previous study has shown that Swedish children with language impairment have prosodic problems at different levels of language. The aim of this study is to investigate prosodic problems at the discourse level in two of the children to see whether they are related to pragmatic problems. Prosodic and pragmatic abilities were assessed by perceptual…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Suprasegmentals, Children, Pragmatics