Complex syntax intervention for Developmental Language Impairment. Athanatou, M. & Theodorou, E. In Proceedings of 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 2020. ExLing Society.
Paper doi abstract bibtex Intervention for children with Developmental Language Disorder appears to be beneficial and contributes to sustainable linguistic gains. This paper reports on a pilot intervention study carried out in Cyprus that examined the efficacy of language treatment targeting complex syntactic structures. Language skills of a nine-year old girl with DLD are described at two time points, before and after intervention. The child received therapy sessions based on MetaTaal therapy, and relative clauses were the targeted syntactic structures. Post-intervention measurements showed marginal improvement in relative clauses production and comprehension. Improvements observed in Complex Sentence Repetition Task and this might imply that the grammatical structures have emerged.
@inproceedings{athanatou_complex_2020,
title = {Complex syntax intervention for {Developmental}
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isbn = {9786188458512},
shorttitle = {International {Society} of {Experimental} {Linguistics} {ExLing} 2021 12th {International} {Conference} of {Experimental} {Linguistics} 11 - 13 {October} 2021 {Athens}, {Greece} {Menu} {Athens}},
url = {https://exlingsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/proceedings/exling-2020/11_0009_000424.pdf},
doi = {10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0009/000424},
abstract = {Intervention for children with Developmental Language Disorder appears to be beneficial and contributes to sustainable linguistic gains. This paper reports on a pilot intervention study carried out in Cyprus that examined the efficacy of language treatment targeting complex syntactic structures. Language skills of a nine-year old girl with DLD are described at two time points, before and after intervention. The child received therapy sessions based on MetaTaal therapy, and relative clauses were the targeted syntactic structures. Post-intervention measurements showed marginal improvement in relative clauses production and comprehension. Improvements observed in Complex Sentence Repetition Task and this might imply that the grammatical structures have emerged.},
urldate = {2025-04-17},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 11th {International} {Conference} of {Experimental} {Linguistics}},
publisher = {ExLing Society},
author = {Athanatou, Maria and Theodorou, Elena},
year = {2020},
}
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