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Do parental questions and topic continuations elicit replies from developmentally delayed children? A sequential

P J Yoder1, B Davies

  • 1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research
|September 1, 1990
PubMed
Summary

Adults continuing a child's topic most effectively prompted replies from children with developmental delays. Explicit prompts were also effective, especially for longer child responses.

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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Language Acquisition
  • Speech-Language Pathology

Background:

  • Understanding conversational interactions is crucial for supporting children with developmental delays.
  • Previous research has explored adult utterance types and their impact on child responses.
  • Specific elicitation strategies for children in early developmental stages require further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze which adult utterance types most effectively elicit conversational replies from developmentally delayed children.
  • To determine the impact of adult topic continuation and explicit prompts on child verbalizations.
  • To examine how adult strategies influence the length and topic relevance of child responses.

Main Methods:

  • Sequential analysis of video and audio recordings of parent-child interactions involving eight developmentally delayed children (Brown's stages I-II) and their primary parents.

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  • Coding of parent-child interaction transcripts for adult utterance types (topic relatedness, obligation level) and child response characteristics (topic relatedness, length, intelligibility).
  • Experimental setting with provided toys to facilitate naturalistic interaction.

    • Main Results:

    • Adult topic continuations were the most effective utterance type for eliciting any-length child replies.
    • When initiating new topics, explicit prompts for child talk significantly increased child responses.
    • Multiword child replies were most probable when adults used explicit prompts that maintained the child's topic.

    Conclusions:

    • Adults can enhance conversational engagement with developmentally delayed children by continuing their topics.
    • Strategic use of explicit prompts, particularly those that follow the child's lead, can foster longer verbal responses.
    • Findings offer practical insights for parents and therapists aiming to improve communication with young children with developmental delays.