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Journal of Speech and Hearing Research Vol.39 850-859 August 1996.
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Effects of Imitative and Conversational Recasting Treatment on the Acquisition of Grammar in Children With Specific Language Impairment and Younger Language-Normal Children

Keith E. Nelson 1
Stephen M. Camarata 2
Janet Welsh 1
Laura Butkovsky 1

Mary Camarata 2
1 Pennsylvania State University University Park
2 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

The purpose of the study was to compare the relative effectiveness of imitative treatment and conversational recast treatment in children with language impairment and in a group of children with normal language skills. Language treatment outcomes were compared between a group of older (4.7 to 6.7) specifically-language-impaired (SLI) children and a group of younger (2.2 to 4.2) language-normal (LN) children matched on language levels and on intervention targets. The results indicated: (a) Target acquisition was more rapid under conversational recast treatment for both groups. (b) This outcome held for targets absent initially (in pretreatment sampling and probing) as well as for initially partially mastered targets. (c) SLI children sometimes can learn grammatical structures as efficiently as language-normal children if similar language input is tailored to their specific developmental language levels. Implications of these findings for language treatment strategies with SLI children are discussed. Theoretical models compatible with the data also are considered.

KEY WORDS: language acquisition, language treatment, SLI, specific language impairment

Submitted on April 18, 1995
Accepted on February 7, 1996


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