Distance delivery of a spoken language intervention for school-aged and adolescent boys with fragile X syndrome. (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McDuffie, Andrea; Banasik, Amy; Bullard, Lauren; Nelson, Sarah; Feigles, Robyn Tempero; Hagerman, Randi; Abbeduto, Leonard
• Is Part Of: Developmental neurorehabilitation. Volume 21:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 48
• Page End: 63
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Distance teleconferencing -- expressive language sampling -- narrative story-telling -- parent-implemented intervention; Children with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Periodicals; Developmentally disabled children -- Rehabilitation -- Periodicals; 615.542
• DOI: 10.1080/17518423.2017.1369189
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-8423

Abstract

ABSTRACT: 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.