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An Evaluation of Compensatory Linguistic Strategies in Boys with Fragile X Syndrome |
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Eileen Haebig - Communication Sciences & Disorders, UW-Madison
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Audra Sterling - Communication Sciences & Disorders, UW-Madison
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Erin Schwartz - Communication Sciences & Disorders, UW-Madison
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Susen Schroeder - Waisman Center
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2014 |
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| - Assessment |
| - Developmental Disabilities |
| - Language Impairment, School Age |
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The fragile X syndrome (FXS) phenotype is associated with cognitive and language delays. Boys with FXS struggle with grammatical skills throughout development. We examined performance on four grammatical forms known to be problematic for children with language impairments in 33 school-age boys with FXS. We tested knowledge of the third-person singular, past tense, and BE/DO verbs using the Test of Early Grammatical Impairment (Rice & Wexler, 2001). A notable number of the child responses were considered unscorable because non-target forms were provided. Therefore we completed an in-depth analysis on these responses. As grammatical complexity increased, boys with FXS provided an increasing number of unscorable responses, including non-target verb forms such as present progressive, modals. However, the majority of these responses were grammatically incorrect. Given that unscorable responses increased in frequency as the target verb form became more complex, it is possible that the boys produced the non-target responses in order to compensate for limited knowledge of the target verb form.
Funding Sources: R03 DC011616, F31 DC013485, start-up funds from UW-Madison |
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