Narrative and Vocabulary Intervention for Middle School Students

Abstract

• There was no difference between students diagnosed as DLD or language disorder associated with ASD. • Overall, students’ improvement for nouns and verbs was similar. However, the improvement in nouns was mainly due to those directly targeted, whereas improvement in verbs was more evenly divided between treatment and control items. ° Treatment of verbs appears to lead to greater generalization than treatment of nouns. ° On lexical decision, the easiest task, accuracy for verbs improved more than for nouns (nouns were already at high accuracy). ° On the more difficult tasks (sentence production and definition), improvement for nouns was greater than for verbs