Communication Disorders Quarterly articles from June 2004

Communication Disorders Quarterly archives from June 2004

Letter from the editor.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... Laura M. Justice and Khara Pence have served as guest editors for three articles in this issue of Communication Disorders Quarterly. As a commitment to the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Division on Communicative Disabilities and...

Addressing the Language and Literacy Needs of Vulnerable Children: Innovative Strategies in the Context of Evidence-Based Practice
June 22, 2004... Innovative language and literacy interventions--those that facilitate change in a way that is theoretically and conceptually different from historical trends--face interesting challenges in the age of evidence-based practice, in which...

Facilitating Literacy Using Experience Books: A Case Study of Two Children with Hearing Loss
June 22, 2004... Children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) are particularly vulnerable for later reading problems. This article describes the use of experience books, associated with the Language Experience Approach (LEA), as a motivating and linguistically...

Parental Scaffolding of Children's Phonological Awareness Skills: Interactions between Mothers and Their Preschoolers with Language Difficulties
June 22, 2004... This study examined mother-child verbal exchanges during phonological awareness (PA) tasks embedded into storybook reading sessions. The aims of the research were (a) to determine how mothers scaffolded their children's task performance, (b) to...

The Effectiveness of Hippotherapy for Children with Language-Learning Disabilities
June 22, 2004... This study examined the effectiveness of hippotherapy versus traditional therapy for children with language-learning disabilities. Three boys, ages 9, 10, and 12 years, and their parents independently completed a satisfaction questionnaire at...

A Fair Hearing for All: Providing Appropriate Amplification in Developing Countries
June 22, 2004... The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Christoffel Blindenmission, initiated a campaign to make hearing health care more affordable in developing countries. As part of this initiative, WHO has issued guidelines on...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2004... Communications Disorders Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1, contained errors in the Continuing Education Questions (pp. 163-165). In Question 5, answer option D should have read, "All of the above." In Question 7, answer option A should have read,...