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The Ability of Children with Specific Language Impairment to Participate in a Group Decision Task

Brigham Young University

Bonnie Brinton

Brigham Young University

Lee A. Robinson

Lee A. Robinson is currently affiliated with Jordan School District, Sandy, UT. This work was supported, in part, by a research grant from the College of Education, Brigham Young University. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the undergraduate research trainee program at Brigham Young University. We would like to express our appreciation to Ms. Julie C. Spencer for her assistance in data collection.

Valyne J. Watson

Valyne Watson is currently serving a full time religious mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Russia. This work was supported, in part, by a research grant from the College of Education, Brigham Young University. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the undergraduate research trainee program at Brigham Young University. We would like to express our appreciation to Ms. Julie C. Spencer for her assistance in data collection.

This study examined the ability of 6 children with specific language impairment (SLI), ages 8:10 to 12:5 (years; months), to participate in a group negotiation task. Each child interacted with two peers to select toys that children their age would enjoy. Performance was compared to both chronological age-similar (CS)peers and language similar (LS)peers performing the same task. Analyses of the resulting interactions indicated that subjects with SLI produced significantly fewer utterances than the other children in the triad. Similar differences were not observed in the CS or LS triads. Additionally, significantly fewer utterances were addressed to the children with SLI than to the other children in their triad. CS and LS triads produced much more balanced interactions, with differences in the number of utterances addressed to each child failing to reach significance.

Communication Disorders Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1-10 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/152574019701800201


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