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Child Language Teaching and Therapy
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A visual graphic tool to support the production of simple sentence structures in a student with learning disability

Christine Valiquette

Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital Ste-Justine, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Anne-Marie Gérin-Lajoie

Centre hospitalier Jacques-Viger, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Ann Sutton

Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche de l’Hôpital Ste-Justine, Montréal, Québec, Canada

A tool was devised to improve spoken syntax through manipulation of graphic symbols. The participant, a French-speaking 11-year-old girl with general learning disability, learned to produce subject-verb-object (SVOn) sentences and transform them into a subject-object-verb (SOpV) structure in which the object becomes pronominal in a preverbal position. The production of personal pronouns in subject position was also targeted. Didactic methods were selected and administered for a total of 12 individual sessions. Pre-and post-measurements in an elicitation task (picture description) and language sample analysis showed significant improvement on target productions.

Child Language Teaching and Therapy, Vol. 22, No. 2, 219-240 (2006)
DOI: 10.1191/0265659006ct302oa
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