Expository Language Skills of Young School-Age Children

Expository language skills of young school-age children.

PURPOSE This research investigated the expository language skills of young school-age children with the ultimate aim of obtaining normative data for clinical practice. Specifically, this study examined (a) the level of expository language performance of 6- and 7-year-old children with typical development and (b) age-related differences between young and older school-age children. METHOD Expos...

Running head: EXPOSITORY DISCOURSE IN YOUNG SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN 1 Expository language skills of young school-aged children

Running head : EXPOSITORY DISCOURSE IN YOUNG SCHOOL - AGED CHILDREN 1 Expository

Intervention to Improve Expository Reading Comprehension Skills in Older Children and Adolescents with Language Disorders

With the recent renewed emphasis on the importance of providing instruction to improve expository discourse comprehension and production skills, speech–language pathologists need to be prepared to implement effective intervention to meet this critical need in older children and adolescents with language disorders. The purpose of this review article is to present intervention techniques, approac...

Differential development of visual attention skills in school-age children

Children aged 7-17 years and adults aged 18-22 years were tested on three aspects of visual attention: the ability to distribute visual attention across the field to search for a target, the time required for attention to recover from being directed towards a target, and the number of objects to which attention can be simultaneously allocated. The data suggested different developmental trajecto...