Interactive focused stimulation for toddlers with expressive vocabulary delays.

@article{Girolametto1996InteractiveFS,
  title={Interactive focused stimulation for toddlers with expressive vocabulary delays.},
  author={Luigi Girolametto and Patsy Steig Pearce and Elaine Weitzman},
  journal={Journal of speech and hearing research},
  year={1996},
  volume={39 6},
  pages={
          1274-83
        }
}
This study explores the effects of training parents to administer focused stimulation intervention to teach specific target words to their toddlers with expressive vocabulary delays. Twenty-five mothers and their late-talking toddlers were randomly assigned to treatment and delayed-treatment (control) groups. Vocabulary targets were individually selected for each toddler based on the child's phonetic repertoire and parent report of vocabulary development. Following treatment, mothers' language… 
View on PubMed
doi.org
307 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
30
Background Citations
80
Methods Citations
19
Results Citations
11

307 Citations

Effects of lexical intervention on the phonology of late talkers.
TLDR
The toddlers who received intervention made treatment gains in two areas of phonological ability, including a greater variety of complex syllable shapes and expanded their speech sound inventories to include more consonant sounds in both initial and final position.
Facilitating Vocabulary in Toddlers Using AAC
Toddlers benefiting from augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) often demonstrate delayed expressive vocabulary. However, a paucity of AAC intervention research exists for children under…
Effects of treatment on linguistic and social skills in toddlers with delayed language development.
TLDR
Significant group differences were found for each of the variables, indicating facilitative effects of the treatment, and increases were observed in areas that were not specifically targeted by the intervention.
A Parent-Implemented Language Intervention for Late Talkers: An Exploratory Study on Low-Risk Preterm and Full-Term Children
TLDR
It is concluded that a parent-focused intervention may be an effective, ecological, and cost-effective program for improving expressive lexical and syntactic skills of full-term and low-risk preterm late talkers, calling for further studies in late talker with biological vulnerabilities.
Effects of Parent-based Video Home Training in children with developmental language delay
An efficacy study of an indirect or Parent-based intervention programme involving Video Home Training (PVHT) was conducted with a focus on parental strategies to (re-)establish coherence in…
Lexical training through modeling and elicitation procedures with late talkers who have specific language impairment and developmental delays.
  • T. Kouri
  • Psychology
    Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
  • 2005
TLDR
Early lexical learning was examined in 2 interactive treatment approaches with 29 late-talking preschoolers with language and developmental disabilities and indicated that the MEI procedure was relatively more effective in facilitating frequency and rate of target word learning in the treatment setting, but no significant differences were found between conditions in the number or percentage of target words generalized to the home setting.
Simplified and expanded input in a focused stimulation program for a child with expressive language delay (ELD)
There is considerable debate regarding the simplification of adults’ language when talking to young children with expressive language delays (ELD). While simplified input, also called telegraphic…
Parent-Implemented Communication Treatment for Infants and Toddlers With Hearing Loss: A Randomized Pilot Trial.
  • M. Roberts
  • Psychology, Medicine
    Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
  • 2019
Purpose Despite advances in cochlear implant and hearing aid technology, many children with hearing loss continue to exhibit poorer language skills than their hearing peers. This randomized pilot…
Assessing the effects of a parent-implemented language intervention for children with language impairments using empirical benchmarks: a pilot study.
  • M. Roberts, A. Kaiser
  • Psychology, Medicine
    Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
  • 2012
TLDR
Results from multilevel modeling indicate that parent-implemented interventions may be an effective treatment for children with expressive and receptive LI and that child receptive language and parent use of matched turns predicted expressive language growth.
Preliminary evaluation of a low-intensity parent training program on speech-language stimulation for children with language delay.
...
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 34 REFERENCES
Improving the social-conversational skills of developmentally delayed children: an intervention study.
  • L. Girolametto
  • Psychology
    The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
  • 1988
TLDR
Following treatment, the mothers in the experimental group were more responsive to and less controlling of their children's behavior than the mother-child dyads in the comparison group.
Early Language Intervention
This investigation focused on the effectiveness of classroom versus individual interventions in promoting initial lexical acquisition for young preschool children with language delays. Twenty…
Maternal linguistic input to toddlers with slow expressive language development.
TLDR
Results revealed that mothers of toddlers with slow language development are different from mothers of normal speakers only in their frequency of use of lexical contingency devices, specifically, expansion and extension.
Comparison of two methods for promoting productive vocabulary in late talkers.
This investigation compared the effectiveness of two language treatment methods, modeling versus modeling plus evoked production, in promoting productive vocabulary in three toddlers identified as…
Involving parents in extending the language development of their young mentally handicapped children
SummaryLanguage facilitation schemes for the Mentally Handicapped have been designed mainly for use by therapists or teachers and they have tended to ignore the contribution which parents inevitably…
Parental speech to young Down's syndrome children: an intervention study.
Parents with Down's syndrome children who were at the one-two word stage of expressive language development were given a language objective to work towards with their child, but no instructions on…
Symbolic play development in toddlers with expressive specific language impairment (SLI-E).
TLDR
The provision of structure in the form of thematically related toy sets, instructions, and modeling did not reduce the discrepancy between demonstrated play behaviors of toddlers with SLI-E and their normally developing peers.
Consumer-Oriented Evaluation of Interactive Language Intervention
TLDR
While consumer satisfaction surveys provide valuable information on the quality of service offered, they are inadequate as sole measures of treatment, thus confirming the social validity of this treatment approach.
Relationships between language and gesture in normally developing and late-talking toddlers.
TLDR
Twelve toddlers with specific expressive language delay were compared to two control groups, one matched for language production and the other matched for age and language comprehension, on measures of spontaneous and imitated gesture production.
Mother-child synchrony and communicative reciprocity in late-talking toddlers.
TLDR
Dyads with late talkers manifested stronger patterns of relationship between the variables studied than comparison dyads, with highly controlling mothers tending to be low in synchrony and to have children who were low in both compliance and synchrony.
...
...