Third Quarter 2015 Highlighted EBP articles
Third Quarter 2015 Highlighted EBP Articles
Brady, N.C., Storkel, H.L., Bushness, P., Barker, M., Saunders, D.D., & Fleming, K. (2015). Investigating a multimodal intervention for children with limited expressive vocabularies associated with autism. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24, 438-459.
This new treatment study showed how combining AAC and speech sound practice resulted in gains in children with autism. This intervention package may be a nice option for children with autism who have limited expressive vocabularies.
Hall-Mills, S., & Apel, K. (2015). Linguistic feature development across grades and genre in elementary writing. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 46, 242-255.
This article provides a great review into written language in school-age children and documents the progression of various elements of writing across grades 2-4. Data from this article can help support clinical decisions regarding written language, specifically within the context of the Common Core State Standards.
