The purpose of this study is to investigate how Social Language Intervention affect the spontaneous social language of language disordered children in the language tharapy room.
For this purpose, three preschool children with language disorder were s...
The purpose of this study is to investigate how Social Language Intervention affect the spontaneous social language of language disordered children in the language tharapy room.
For this purpose, three preschool children with language disorder were selected in the integrated preschool and nonintegrated preschool settings. Social Language Intervention of this study was limited to 'Request' among the categories of the pragmatic funtion of the social language.
Using multiple baseline design accross subjects, the frequency of the spontaneou s 'Reguest' in response to the examiner's mand was measured. The frequency of the spontaneous 'Request' during free-play in the integrated and nonintegrated preschool settings was analyzed to see generalization of newly acquired social language.
The results obtained from the present study are as follows:
Firstly, the frequency of the spontaneous social language was increased through Social Language Intervention for children both in integrated and nonintegrated set tings. However, the generalization effect occurred significantly more often in children treated in the integrated setting.
Secondly, Social Language Intervention increased the frequency of the spontaneous speech in 'Suggestion' and 'Action Request' among the subcategories of ' Request.' The other subcategories(i.e., 'Question' and 'Approval Request') stayed almost the same. In addition, children treated in the integrated setting showed better improvement in terms of frequency of spontaneous 'Suggestion' and 'Action Request.'
Thirdly, Social Language Intervention increased the frequency of the spontaneou s 'Assertion' social language in children treated in the integrated setting than nonintegrated setting.
Finally, Social Language Intervention increased the frequency of the spontaneou s 'Response' in children treated in the integrated setting than nonintegrated setting.