Distance delivery of a spoken language intervention for school-aged and adolescent boys with fragile X syndrome.

A small randomized group design (N = 20) was used to examine a parent-implemented intervention designed to improve the spoken language skills of school-aged and adolescent boys with FXS, the leading cause of inherited intellectual disability. The intervention was implemented by speech-language patho...

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Published in:	Developmental Neurorehabilitation Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 48 - 64
Main Authors:	McDuffie, Andrea, Banasik, Amy, Bullard, Lauren, Nelson, Sarah, Feigles, Robyn Tempero, Hagerman, Randi, Abbeduto, Leonard
Format:	research tables/charts Journal Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd 2018
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	A small randomized group design (N = 20) was used to examine a parent-implemented intervention designed to improve the spoken language skills of school-aged and adolescent boys with FXS, the leading cause of inherited intellectual disability. The intervention was implemented by speech-language pathologists who used distance video-teleconferencing to deliver the intervention. The intervention taught mothers to use a set of language facilitation strategies while interacting with their children in the context of shared story-telling. Treatment group mothers significantly improved their use of the targeted intervention strategies. Children in the treatment group increased the duration of engagement in the shared story-telling activity as well as use of utterances that maintained the topic of the story. Children also showed increases in lexical diversity, but not in grammatical complexity.