Communication Disorders Quarterly articles from March 2001

Communication Disorders Quarterly archives from March 2001

From the Editor.
March 22, 2001... Welcome to the third issue of Volume 22. Communication Disorders Quarterly has now been publishing informative applied research articles and clinical exchanges for the last 22 years. This journal also welcomes articles as "works in progress."...

Written Language Awareness in Preschool Children from Low-Income Households: A Descriptive Analysis.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... This study examined written language awareness in preschool children from low-income households. A total of 38 preschool children (mean age = 53 months) participated. All children resided in households with incomes that fell at or below federal...

Important Distinctions in Measuring Maternal Responses to Communication in Prelinguistic Children with Disabilities.
March 22, 2001... Two research hypotheses were tested in the research reported here: The first was that nonlinguistic maternal responses to intentional child communication, but not to preintentional communication, will predict later intentional communication but...

An Investigation of T-Units in African American English-Speaking and Standard American English-Speaking Fourth-Grade Children.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... This study investigated the dialectal sensitivity of the T-unit to determine if it provides a nonbiased alternative for assessing the oral grammatical skills of school-age, nonstandard English speakers. Language samples obtained from 9-year-old...

Speech Recognition Thresholds for Multilingual Populations.
March 22, 2001... An omnibus survey conducted in 1994 by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association reported that 85% of audiologists were monolingual English-speakers. Speech audiometry is typically conducted with English materials. However, a large and...