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Emanuel, Rosemary; Chiat, Shula; Roy, Penny – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Clinicians in the UK rely mainly on informal observations and structured and semi-structured tasks rather than standardized testing in their assessments of pre-school children referred with speech and language difficulties. The informal nature of the clinical decision-making process at this age is unsurprising given the dearth of…
Descriptors: Therapy, Standardized Tests, Severity (of Disability), Followup Studies
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O'toole, Ciara; Chiat, Shula – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2006
Background: Understanding the relationship between preverbal skills and language development has important implications for identifying communication delay/disorders and for early childhood intervention. In the case of children with Down syndrome, it is well established that symbolic play is associated with the emergence of language. However, the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Disabilities, Correlation, Age Differences