A tool was devised to improve spoken syntax through manipulation of graphic symbols.
The participant, a French-speaking 11-year-old girl with general learning
disability, learned to produce subject-verb-object (SVOn) sentences and transform
them into a subject-object-verb (SOpV) structure in which the object becomes
pronominal in a preverbal position. The production of personal pronouns in subject
position was also targeted. Didactic methods were selected and administered for a
total of 12 individual sessions. Pre-and post-measurements in an elicitation task
(picture description) and language sample analysis showed significant improvement on
target productions.
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