Verb-focused language intervention for late talkers: a single-subject experimental design
| dc.contributor.author | Moyle, Charmain Larnay | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-20T00:57:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-20T12:20:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine whether a verb-focused language intervention was effective in increasing children’s verb-vocabulary. In particular, this study investigated whether the treatment resulted in changes to children’s production of target words compared to control words for children who are late talkers. Method: The study utilised a single-subject, multiple baseline across behaviours design. Four children, aged 26-to-39 months who exhibited delayed expressive language development participated in the study. At the beginning of the study, all children had poor expressive language performance indicated by a mean length of utterance two standard deviations below the mean expected for their age and limited vocabulary measured by the New Zealand Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences. New verb-vocabulary items were randomly assigned to intervention and untreated control conditions and probed at regular intervals over a period of eight weeks. Results: All the participants showed increased use of the target verbs compared to the control verbs during the intervention and post-intervention phase. Conclusion: The findings suggest that a verb-focused language intervention was effective in increasing the verb-vocabulary of late talkers. Further research is warranted to determine whether similar results can be found with a larger cohort and whether these gains are sustained over time. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10061 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/9006 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Canterbury. Communication Disorders | en |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | NZCU | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright Charmain Larnay Moyle | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://canterbury.libguides.com/rights/theses | en |
| dc.subject | late talker | en |
| dc.subject | language | en |
| dc.subject | verb | en |
| dc.subject | focused language stimulation | en |
| dc.title | Verb-focused language intervention for late talkers: a single-subject experimental design | en |
| dc.type | Theses / Dissertations | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Speech and Language Sciences | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Canterbury | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science | en |
| uc.bibnumber | 2063991 | |
| uc.college | Faculty of Science | en |
| uc.embargo | 4 | en |