Facilitating Social Communication in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: A Bibliotherapeutic Approach.

Purpose: Social communication involves the integration of language processing, pragmatics, and social and emotional learning. Children presenting with a variety of disabilities, including developmental language disorder, have difficulty with social communication. We describe an intervention approach...

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Publicado en:Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 532 - 538
Autores principales: Brinton, Bonnie, Fujiki, Martin
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jun2019
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Sumario:Purpose: Social communication involves the integration of language processing, pragmatics, and social and emotional learning. Children presenting with a variety of disabilities, including developmental language disorder, have difficulty with social communication. We describe an intervention approach designed to simultaneously address language form, pragmatics, and social and emotional learning utilizing a bibliotherapeutic approach. Story sharing and story enactment activities are described, and materials and resources are provided. The intervention is structured in a plan-do-review format and is designed to be implemented within a school setting. Conclusion: Preliminary efficacy data are presented.