Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Speech Communication
First Advisor
Mary E. Gordon
Date of Publication
1990
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.) in Speech Communication
Department
Speech Communication
Subjects
Children -- Language, Preschool education -- Parent participation
DOI
10.15760/etd.5978
Physical Description
1 online resource (53 p.)
Abstract
The purpose of this research project was to determine whether a child-centered parent training program requiring minimal training would increase the language skills of LD pre-school children who have normal receptive language. Seven experimental subjects and 6 control subjects were randomly selected from a pool of middle-class families who answered a newspaper advertisement. The parents of the experimental group received 3 individual training sessions over a 3-month period. They were instructed to spend 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, in a free play situation with their children using the language stimulation techniques they had learned, i.e., parallel talk, description, self-talk, and expansion. To eliminate a possible "halo effect" from the attention given the children in the experimental group, the parents in the control group were instructed to spend 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, playing individually with their children.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/23549
Recommended Citation
Krupa, Lynn, "The effect of a parent training program on language delayed children" (1990). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4095.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.5978
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