Worth Repeating: Child Word Finding: Student Voices Enlighten Us

12th January, 2011

14 January 2011, Article, Language, Newsletter, SLP, Specific Language Impairment, Word Finding

German, D. (2009, February 10). The ASHA Leader.
The prevalence of child word-finding difficulty is high among learners with specific language impairment (25%; Dockrell, Messer, George, & Wilson, 1998) and learning disabilities (49%; German, 1998). Clinical reports also document WF difficulties among learners with reading (Faust, Dimitrovsky, & Shacht, 2003) and written (Scott, 2002) language difficulties. Earlier research literature (Johnson & Myklebust, 1967; Wiig & Semel, 1976) suggests that previous generations of students also struggled with word finding.
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