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1	EFFECTS OF A COACHING INTERVENTION ON TEACHER’S IMPLEMENTATION OF NATURALISTIC STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE COMMUNICATION IN CHILDREN Dick, Kaitlin J. 01 January 2017 (has links) With accountability on the rise, educators are changing their focus to optimizing instructional strategies in the classroom. Their job performance depends upon their ability to show progress on child outcomes. One way teachers advance this process is by executing more evidence-based practices in their classroom. There is a lack of research in early childhood that report treatment integrity of the treatment package. This study utilized a multicomponent coaching intervention to increasing treatment fidelity of teacher implementation of naturalistic teaching strategies in an early childhood classroom. This coaching intervention could prove to be more efficient and practical for educators. This study added to the external validity and generalization of the findings in an early childhood classroom by using one-two year old children with social communication delays. This study found a functional relationship between training early childhood teachers through a multicomponent coaching intervention and the increase in treatment fidelity of implementing naturalistic teaching strategies with children with communication delays. The percentage of child responses per opportunity increased once the teachers implemented the strategies. Coaching Video Modeling Treatment Fidelity Naturalistic Language Strategies Early Childhood Early Childhood Education
2	Scoring Sentences Developmentally: An Analog of Developmental Sentence Scoring Seal, Amy 01 January 2002 (has links) (PDF) A variety of tools have been developed to assist in the quantification and analysis of naturalistic language samples. In recent years, computer technology has been employed in language sample analysis. This study compares a new automated index, Scoring Sentences Developmentally (SSD), to two existing measures. Eighty samples from three corpora were manually analyzed using DSS and MLU and the processed by the automated software. Results show all three indices to be highly correlated, with correlations ranging from .62 to .98. The high correlations among scores support further investigation of the psychometric characteristics of the SSD software to determine its clinical validity and reliability. Results of this study suggest that SSD has the potential to compliment other analysis procedures in assessing the language development of young children. naturalistic language language sample analysis Scoring Sentences Developmentally SSD Mean Length of Utterance MLU LARSP Index of Productive Syntax IPSyn Developmental Sentence Scoring DSS Computerized Language Analysis CLAN Computerized Profiling CP Computerized Profiling CP Communication Sciences and Disorders

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EFFECTS OF A COACHING INTERVENTION ON TEACHER’S IMPLEMENTATION OF NATURALISTIC STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE COMMUNICATION IN CHILDREN

Scoring Sentences Developmentally: An Analog of Developmental Sentence Scoring