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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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Craig-Unkefer, Lesley; Camarata, Stephen – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: Facilitating language development in children with specific language impairment (SLI) who are learning African American English (AAE) as their first dialect requires clinicians to consider grammatical, lexical, and cultural differences. The purpose of this article is to examine 2 intervention methods that have an extensive history of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intervention, Delayed Speech, Language Impairments
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Culatta, Barbara; Hall-Kenyon, Kendra M.; Black, Sharon – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: This pilot project implemented and evaluated a theme-based unit designed to teach expository comprehension skills to young children in four preschool classrooms. Method: The program and the unit were collaborative efforts of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and early childhood educators. Within topically related units, 71 children ages…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Preschool Children, Expository Writing, Pilot Projects
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Ukrainetz, Teresa A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
This article reviews the evidence pertaining to intensity for phonemic awareness intervention for preschoolers and kindergartners with language impairment. The nature of phonemic awareness instruction is considered, including which phonemic awareness skills should be explicitly taught, how to structure these skills into teaching episodes, and how…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Impairments, Reading Achievement, Phonemic Awareness
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Goldstein, Howard; Schneider, Naomi; Thiemann, Kathy – Topics in Language Disorders, 2007
This article provides an overview of 3 approaches to peer-mediated intervention that have been effective in improving the social and communicative interactions among young children with autism and other developmental disabilities and their classmates without disabilities. These empirically supported peer-mediated interventions involve teaching…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Teaching Methods, Intervention, Developmental Disabilities
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Roth, Froma P.; Troia, Gary A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2006
In this article, 3 models of collaboration between speech-language pathologists and classroom teachers are discussed to promote emergent literacy and accurate and fluent word recognition. These models are demonstration lessons, team teaching, and consultation. A number of instructional principles are presented for emergent literacy and decoding…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Word Recognition, Team Teaching, Speech Language Pathology
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Hagstrom, Fran; Wertsch, James V. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2004
This article describes sociocultural theory as a way to ground social identity for clinical and research practices in speech-language pathology. The purpose is to (1) outline the fundamentals of the theory and (2) link the focal unit of analysis from the theory, mediated action, to social identity to (3) support the clinical utility of mediated…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Sociocultural Patterns, Identification (Psychology), Social Theories