Journal article
Working with the parents and families of children with developmental language disorders: An international perspective
J Law, P Levickis, IR Rodríguez-Ortiz, A Matić, R Lyons, C Messarra, E Kouba Hreich, M Stankova
Journal of Communication Disorders | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2019
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Abstract
Background: The relationship between parental input and child language development has had a complex history. It has become clear that indirect parent training for the parents of children with delayed language development is an important feature of interventions offered by speech and language therapists in the anglophone countries. Yet we know less about how this type of approach is realised in other countries. Methods: In this paper we report the results of a survey of practice undertaken as part of the work of COST Action IS1406, a European Union (EU) funded research network. The focus of this paper is specifically on parent-related questions and responses referring to children under the a..
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Awarded by Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all those involved in developing the practitioner survey -members of Cost Action IS1406 and the very large number of practitioners from such a large number of countries who took time out of their busy schedules to complete the practitioner survey on-line. This article publication is based upon work from COST Action IS1406, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). Dr Levickis was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 705044.