Prelinguistic Interactions, Child-Addressed Speech, and Nonlinguistic Interaction Strategies: A Comparison of Severely Handicapped Child-Caregiver Dyads With Cognitively-Similar Nonhandicapped Child-Caregiver Dyads

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the features of child-caregiver interactions which are likely to influence initial semantic development and to assess whether the natural interactive experiences of prelinguistic severely handicapped children are as likely as those of cognitively-similar nonhandicapped children to promote initial language comprehension. This was done by comparing the interactions of five prelinguistic severely handicapped child-caregiver dyads with those of five cognitively-similar nonhandicapped child-caregiver dyads.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech and Hearing Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Koenig, Mareile Anne

• Health Sciences, Speech Pathology
• Psychology, Developmental

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8218500

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70674