Production of Complex/Compound Sentences in the Spontaneous Speech of Typically Developing Children and Children with Williams Syndrome

Location

CSU

Student's Major

Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services

Student's College

Allied Health and Nursing

Mentor's Name

Patricia Hargrove

Mentor's Department

Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services

Mentor's College

Allied Health and Nursing

Description

Children with Williams Syndrome, a developmental disability, are reported to speak more eloquently than typically developing children. One way of judging eloquence is to compare the amount of complex and compound sentences in speech. The Department of Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services has audiolapes of the speech of children with Williams Syndrome and typically developing children. The audiolapes of children's spontaneous speech samples will be analyzed using a computerized language system (SALT) to compare the samples of the Williams Syndrome and typically developing children. The purpose of this comparison is to answer the question "Do children with Williams Syndrome use more complex/ compound than typically developing children?" Based on claims in the literature, it is expected that the Williams Syndrome children will use complex/compound sentences more frequently than typically developing children.

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Production of Complex/Compound Sentences in the Spontaneous Speech of Typically Developing Children and Children with Williams Syndrome

CSU

Children with Williams Syndrome, a developmental disability, are reported to speak more eloquently than typically developing children. One way of judging eloquence is to compare the amount of complex and compound sentences in speech. The Department of Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services has audiolapes of the speech of children with Williams Syndrome and typically developing children. The audiolapes of children's spontaneous speech samples will be analyzed using a computerized language system (SALT) to compare the samples of the Williams Syndrome and typically developing children. The purpose of this comparison is to answer the question "Do children with Williams Syndrome use more complex/ compound than typically developing children?" Based on claims in the literature, it is expected that the Williams Syndrome children will use complex/compound sentences more frequently than typically developing children.