The literature on grammatical skills in persons with Cri du chat syndrome (CCS) is very limited, and the need for more knowledge in this area is thus evident, in particular for speech and language therapists working with individuals with this syndrome. This case study report describes the syntactic skills of a 14-year-old Norwegian girl with CCS. The theoretical framework is construction gramma...

Introduction: The present study seeks to describe and analyze the syntactic features of children with severely hearing loss who had access to the hearing aids compared with children with normal hearing, assigning them to the same separate gender classes.   Materials and Methods: In the present study, eight children with severe hearing impairment who used a hearing aid and eight hearing children...

This study examined the development of literacy skills in children in a district that used a Response to Intervention (RTI) model. The district included children whose first language was English and children who were learning English as a second language (ESL). Tasks measuring phonological awareness, lexical access, and syntactic awareness were administered when the children entered school in k...

Göçle gelen mültecilerin birçok sorunu olmaktadır. Bunlardan en önemlisi de iletişim yani dil sorunudur. Göç ettikleri ülkenin dilini bilmek, mülteciler için iş bulabilmek, eğitimlerine devam edebilmek, hayatlarını daha düzenli bir şekilde sürdürebilmek demektir. Son yıllarda Türkiye’ye göç etmek zorunda kalan Suriyelilerin ülkemizdeki hayata uyum sağlamaları pek çok çalışma yürütülmektedir. Zo...

Poor comprehenders have intact word-reading skills but struggle specifically with understanding what they read. We investigated whether two metalinguistic skills, morphological and syntactic awareness, are specifically related to poor reading comprehension by including separate and combined measures of each. We identified poor comprehenders (n = 15) and average comprehenders (n = 15) in Grade 4...