I have a tendency to dwell on the past, and being that I’m a speech-language pathologist, I also dwell on past tense verbs. Amanda Owen Van Horne and her research team have recently uncovered some interesting findings that may alter how clinicians go about targeting the ‘ed’ past-tense morpheme. Specifically, they have found that utilizing…
Category: Preschool Language
Providing multiple examples during vocabulary instruction can promote retention of target words
Does size matter? YES! According to Jessica Aguilar, Elena Plante, and Michelle Sandoval, size does matter when it comes to the set of different examples provided to young children during vocabulary instruction. They worked with 4-5-year-olds with specific language impairment. One group received vocabulary instruction of nouns with a single object corresponding to each word,…
Children with Specific Language Impairment seem to benefit more than typically developing children from meaningful gestures during vocabulary instruction
Channel your inner Madonna and vogue for this one. Why? Because of Susanne Vogt and Christina Kauschke’s work on hand gestures. Working off of previous studies, they wanted to investigate the use of attention grabbing gestures (pointing with the index to prompt a child to listen) versus gestures that are reflective of word meanings for…
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