Interactive Book Reading Intervention Paper

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine whether the interactive book reading intervention study performed by Storkel et al. (2017) resulted in accelerated word learning by kindergarten children with specific language impairment (SLI). To learn new words, children with SLI seem to need two or three times as many exposures to the new words than their peers. For this reason, this experiment’s first goal sought to identify an intensity level of interactive book reading that was suitable for new word learning in children with SLI. The secondary goal was to examine variability in treatment response across children with SLI.
Participants
Twenty-seven kindergarten children with SLI from eastern Kansas participated in this study (one child
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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