What is it about?
Speech language pathologists and educators know that vocabulary is an important component of treatment for many children with language disorders, but it can be challenging to select appropriate vocabulary goals, and design plans to meet those goals. This article summarizes the research about why vocabulary matters to reading, and outlines evidence based strategies for making goals, and providing vocabulary intervention.
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Why is it important?
Vocabulary weaknesses are an important reason for the difficulties which many children have with reading. For children with language disorders, vocabulary intervention is critically important. This article gives clinicians up to date resources to design evidence based vocabulary intervention.
Perspectives
This article outlines what I wanted to know when I was working as an SLP in schools. And if I had a child with a language disorder, this is the information that I would hope that their SLP would have access to. There are lots of unanswered questions about how to help children with language disorders learn vocabulary, but there is also a lot that is known! My hope is that clinicians and teachers will gain more confidence in their knowledge and skills in the area of vocabulary intervention.
Dawna Duff
Binghamton University
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This page is a summary of: Vocabulary Instruction to Support Reading: A Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, October 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2023_persp-23-00075.
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