TY - JOUR
T1 - Treatment efficiency as a function of target selection in the remediation of child language disorders
AU - Camarata, Stephen M.
AU - Nelson, Keith E.
N1 - Funding Information:
preparation. Thanks are also extended to Ray Kent, Leslie Olswang and Jon Miller for reviewing an earlier version of this manuscript. This project was supported in part by contract NS26437 from NIDCD of the National Institutes of Health and in part by an endowment to the first author from the Scottish Rite Foundation of Nashville. Requests for reprints should be directed to Stephen M. Camarata, Director, Scottish Rite Child Language Disorders Center, Division of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 37232-8700.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - A number of studies appearing in the recent literature examined the effectiveness of treating language impairments using indirect, conversationally based interventions. However, such studies have been difficult to interpret, due, in part, to a lack of direct comparisons of treatment types. The present study was designed to compare directly elicited imitation treatment and conversational treatment using linguistic targets matched for structural stage and assigned randomly to treatment condition. These treatments were applied to four specifically language-impaired children (age range 4;9 to 5;11) during a 16-week training period. Spontaneous productions occurred following significantly fewer presentations within the conversational treatment. Additionally, the results indicated that both kinds of treatments were effective and that certain individual targets were acquired more rapidly within the elicited imitation treatment. These findings are discussed in terms of the differing approaches to treatment and in terms of more general theories of language learning.
AB - A number of studies appearing in the recent literature examined the effectiveness of treating language impairments using indirect, conversationally based interventions. However, such studies have been difficult to interpret, due, in part, to a lack of direct comparisons of treatment types. The present study was designed to compare directly elicited imitation treatment and conversational treatment using linguistic targets matched for structural stage and assigned randomly to treatment condition. These treatments were applied to four specifically language-impaired children (age range 4;9 to 5;11) during a 16-week training period. Spontaneous productions occurred following significantly fewer presentations within the conversational treatment. Additionally, the results indicated that both kinds of treatments were effective and that certain individual targets were acquired more rapidly within the elicited imitation treatment. These findings are discussed in terms of the differing approaches to treatment and in terms of more general theories of language learning.
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U2 - 10.3109/02699209208985528
DO - 10.3109/02699209208985528
M3 - Article
C2 - 21269156
AN - SCOPUS:0026684172
SN - 0269-9206
VL - 6
SP - 167
EP - 178
JO - Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
JF - Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
IS - 3
ER -