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2016-05-30

Dumbrell, Kate, Hornby, Bryn, Stephenson, Kayla, Schneider, Phyllis

Narratives are widely used in language assessment and intervention. They are clinically useful, as they require the skills of combining words and sentences into meaningful stories. Narratives of children with impairments predict later academic achievement, language development, and reading...

2016-03-23

Grant, Lucy, Sadhra, Avneet, Schneider, Phyllis, Skoczyals, Melissa, Currie, Samantha

Language is extensively used within the school environment, sometimes in areas which might not be evident unless working with a child with language impairments. Kristen Hedley (2012) created a tool called the “SLP curriculum” for teachers and speech-language pathologists to use collaboratively,...

2016-03-23

Skoczyals, Melissa, Grant, Lucy, Currie, Samantha, Sadhra, Avneet, Schneider, Phyllis

Language is extensively used within the school environment, sometimes in areas which might not be evident unless working with a child with language impairments. Kristen Hedley (2012) created a tool called the “SLP curriculum” for teachers and speech-language pathologists to use collaboratively,...

2016-06-30

Dimitrijevic Savic, Jovana, Howell, Heather, Schneider, Phyllis

This paper quantitatively examines grammatical complexity and lexical diversity in the oral and written narrative productions from a subsample of children, aged six and eight, includ-ed in Test of Early Language and Literacy (TELL: Phillips, Hayward & Norris, 2016) narrative norming sample. For...

2015-06-30

Sanders, Kaitlin, Borger, Paige, Charest, Monique, Schneider, Phyllis, McFarlane, Lu-Anne, Yip, Beatrice

BACKGROUND INFORMATION There is compelling evidence that, for the majority of children with specific language impairment (SLI), language difficulties are longstanding. Other research, however, has reported that a high proportion of affected preschool-age children recover by about kindergarten...

2014-05-05

Ortlieb, Andrea, Babar, Aseea, Baird, Shelby, Lang, Bretton

Background: The term mental state can be used to describe a person’s emotional or cognitive condition (i.e. feelings, thoughts, or perceptions). Narratives provide an important context for the use of mental state words, since stories in Western culture frequently describe characters’ thoughts...

2013-06-27

Williamson, Robert, Fung, Jennifer, Annable, Caitlin

There are currently no studies that examine the types of phonemic awareness errors children are making on tests of phonemic awareness. This study aimed to: (a) develop a taxonomy to categorize the different types of errors made on a test of phoneme segmentation by grade one children, (b)...

2012-08-31

Schneider, Phyllis, Hedley, Kristen, Skoczylas, Melissa

Both academically and socially, the school context is a very language intensive environment. These language demands are amplified for students with language impairments. “Inclusion” is a growing force driving recent educational theory and policy. If students with language deficits are not...

2012-06-25

Conley, Robyn, O'Brien, Colleen, Hanson, Karly, Fournier, Angèle

Technology use in assessment and intervention in speech-language pathology is an area of rapid growth. Decisions about what type of device to use should be evidence based and take into account best practice principles (BPPs) within speech-language pathology. This study explored the benefits and...

2012-03-08

DeBeyer, Michaela, Anderson, Sarah, Servant, Tamaira, Willerton, Kristin, Marcinkow, Alissa, Scheffers, Sarah

Storytelling tasks are commonly used to assess language in a functional context. However, the quality of children's stories can vary depending on how stories are elicited. Research (Pearce, 2003; Schneider & Dubé, 2005) has shown differences in children’s narratives when retelling stories from...