title: A preliminary evaluation of Fast ForWord-Language as an adjuvant treatment in language intervention.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Fast ForWord-Language (FFW-L) is designed to enhance children's processing of auditory-verbal signals and, thus, their ability to learn language. As a preliminary evaluation of this claim, we examined the effects of a 5-week course of FFW-L as an adjuvant treatment with a subsequent 5-week conventional narrative-based language intervention (NBLI) that targeted narrative comprehension and production and grammatical output.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-three children 6-8 years of age with language impairments were assigned randomly to 1 of 3 intervention sequences: (a) FFW-L/NBLI, (b) NBLI/FFW-L, or (c) wait/NBLI. We predicted that after both treatment periods, the FFW-L/NBLI group would show greater gains on measures of narrative ability, conversational grammar, and nonword repetition than the other groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After the first 5-week study period, the intervention groups, taken together (i.e., FFW-L/NBLI and NBLI/FFW-L), significantly outperformed the no-treatment wait/NBLI group on 2 narrative measures. At the final test period, all 3 groups displayed significant time-related effects on measures of narrative ability, but there were no statistically significant between-groups effects of intervention sequence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This preliminary study provides no evidence to support the claim that FFW-L enhances children's response to a conventional language intervention.
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160-7605, USA. mfey@kumc.edu
authors.forename: Marc E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Fey
authors.forename: Lizbeth H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Finestack
authors.forename: Byron J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Gajewski
authors.forename: Mihai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Popescu
authors.forename: Jeffrey D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Lewine
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D007807:Language Tests; D007808:Language Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D033262:Narration; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013060:Speech; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
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