Participants
Twenty-seven kindergarten children with SLI from eastern Kansas participated in this study (one child …show more content…
The first limitation is that the current treatment is entirely receptive. This means that the children were given high-intensity input but were never required to respond to that input. Since children with SLI are known to have difficulty retrieving words, treatment may be strengthened by divided the exposures between expressive and receptive tasks. The second limitation is that predictors of a positive treatment response included both elements of phonology and semantics. A larger study would be useful in understanding which variable contributed more to the treatment outcomes. Third, there are several ways to provide 36 exposures. Further studies should divide the 36 exposures by dose and dose frequency in several different ways. For example, one group would receive a dose of six and a dose frequency of six while another group would receive a dose of nine and a dose frequency of four, and so on. Lastly, it is possible that interactive book reading would not be an effective treatment for children with lower phonological awareness, vocabulary, or nonword repetition scores. Further studies are needed to determine an adequate treatment for word learning in children with SLI or an adequate division of 36 exposures for word