SynthesisAmerican journal of speech-language pathology2015
The efficacy of recasts in language intervention: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A meta-analysis on study and sample characteristics modulating mock earwitness performance.Psychological research · 2024Pooled it
- Clinical practice guideline: Interventions for Developmental Language Delay and Disorders.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2024Guideline
- Effect of language therapy alone for developmental language disorder in children: A meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of a Complexity-Based Approach on Generalization of Past Tense -ed and Related Morphemes.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2018Trial
- Do the Hard Things First: A Randomized Controlled Trial Testing the Effects of Exemplar Selection on Generalization Following Therapy for Grammatical Morphology.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2017Trial
- Dose Schedule and Enhanced Conversational Recast Treatment for Children With Specific Language Impairment.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2016Trial
- Evaluating a Targeted Language Intervention for Children Aged 4-6 Years-Applying an 'Information Carrying Words' Approach.International journal of language & communication disordersTrial
- The Effects of Video Visual Scene Displays on the Symbolic Communication of Preschool Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Their Peers in a Shared Video Activity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Learning to Learn: Initial Treatment of a Partially Acquired Grammatical Form Speeds Later Learning of Rarely Used Forms for Children With Developmental Language Disorder.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2026Article
- Beyond Mean Length of Utterance: Novel Measures for Characterizing the Spoken Language of Autistic Children.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2026Article
- The Mechanistic Framework of Alignment: A Unified Model.Cognitive science · 2025Review
- Does Executive Function Performance Predict Treatment Response in Preschoolers With Developmental Language Disorder?American journal of speech-language pathology · 2025Article
- What Matters When Providing Conversational Recast Treatment? A Multilevel Modeling Analysis.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2025Article
- Cognitive vs. Linguistic Training in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Exploring Their Effectiveness on Verbal Short-Term Memory and Verbal Working Memory.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Sentences Are Key: Helping School-Age Children and Adolescents Build Sentence Skills Needed for Real Language.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2024Article
- Enhancing Syntactic Knowledge in School-Age Children With Developmental Language Disorder: The Promise of Syntactic Priming.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2024Review
- Less Versus More: The Effect of Recast Length in Treatment of Grammatical Errors.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2024Article
- Frequency, Form and Function of Dyadic Questions in Children with Autism: A CHILDES corpus study.Communication disorders quarterly · 2023Article
- What predicts individual response to language treatment in bilingual children with developmental language disorder?Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups · 2023Article
- Home Literacy Experiences and Shared Reading Practices: Preschoolers With Hearing Loss.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeThis systematic review and meta-analysis critically evaluated the research evidence on the effectiveness of conversational recasts in grammatical development for children with language impairments.
methodTwo different but complementary reviews were conducted and then integrated. Systematic searches of the literature resulted in 35 articles for the systematic review. Studies that employed a wide variety of study designs were involved, but all examined interventions where recasts were the key component. The meta-analysis only included studies that allowed the calculation of effect sizes, but it did include package interventions in which recasts were a major part. Fourteen studies were included, 7 of which were also in the systematic review. Studies were grouped according to research phase and were rated for quality.
resultsStudy quality and thus strength of evidence varied substantially. Nevertheless, across all phases, the vast majority of studies provided support for the use of recasts. Meta-analyses found average effect sizes of .96 for proximal measures and .76 for distal measures, reflecting a positive benefit of about 0.75 to 1.00 standard deviation.
conclusionThe available evidence is limited, but it is supportive of the use of recasts in grammatical intervention. Critical features of recasts in grammatical interventions are discussed.
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