Proctor, 1984). Now that language intervention has expanded its horizons, the task of
characterizing the nature of these clinicianchild interactions becomes more formidable. More …

Descriptive studies of clinician-child therapy interaction suggest a tightly controlled system of
verbal exchange centring around the underlying plan of the clinical lesson. Drawing upon …

Qualitative studies have produced new but fragmentary observations of the discourse of
clinical lessons. This paper surveys these findings and integrates them around the principles …

This study described the discourse of clinicians and language-disordered children. Verbal
and nonverbal discourse components of routine lessons were the focus of the investigation …

There has been a small accumulation of studies of clinician-child discourse. Early work has
demonstrated the value of careful description of real lessons as they are carried out by …

Speech therapists' use of language when conducting conventional one-to-one therapy with
children is described in terms of communicative acts. Therapists draw on a selection of …

Various pragmatic procedures were used to analyze clinician-child discourse in a language
remediation setting. Communicative acts, responses to prior requests, and discourse topics …

This paper presents an analysis of how three interlocutors sequentially organize and
accomplish mutual understanding in naturally occurring audiovisual recordings of therapy …

This article distinguishes between adult-and child-centered intervention practices according
to five interrelated dimensions of therapy context: the event, the agenda, the interactional …

An ecological model is presented for the communication development of young children.
The model translates research on parent-child interaction into a series of clinical guides for …