Amanda Owen Van Horne sits on the floor while a child mixes up cake batter in a play kitchen.
While at play, an intensive language therapy program is also underway for preschool-aged children with developmental language disorder at the University of Delaware's Treatment Efficacy and Learning Language Lab. The child says, "Him cooking." Owen Van Horne repeats back, "He is cooking."
Owen Van Horne and Castilla-Earls have been awarded a five-year $3.27 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to further define the relationship between a child's language proficiency in English or Spanish and the language of instruction to determine whether that impacts learning.
Related StoriesThis expanded five-year study involving 140 kids ages 4 to 6 in Texas will seek to answer that crucial question. "The long-term goal is to provide guidance on how to match SLPs who speak a specific language to children's needs so schools can provide a better match of personnel to service-delivery needs," she said.
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