Children with specific language impairment (SLI) often have extraordinary difficulty in the use of tense and agreement morphemes. Because spontaneous speech samples may not provide a sufficient number of obligatory contexts for these morphemes, structured probe items are often employed. However, these usually emphasize actions that can be readily…

This paper explores language intervention for children with specific language impairment in Sweden. The elicitation strategies, style of interaction and language production used by speech and language pathologists (SLPs) were analyzed in two conditions, free conversation and training of grammar. In training, the grammatical targets were used…

This pilot investigation compared the language use of mothers and their four children with language impairment during in-home readings of two storybook genres. Mother-child dyads repeatedly read two book genres, narrative-only and narrative + manipulative storybooks. The language output during the repeated readings was transcribed and analysed for…