Koenig, K., & Scahill, L. (2001). Assessment of children with pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 14(4), 159-66.
This article breaks down Pervasive Development Disorders (PDDs) and how they are conditions that are characterized by abnormal behavior in communication skills and social functioning. It lectures about how children with PDDs experience repetitive and restricted behavior in daily life tasks. Scahill and Koeing give an analysis on important knowledge that is necessary to be able to distinguish PDDs conditions to non-PDDs conditions. This article will be useful in the research paper because it talks about the most common PDDs and how they affect speech and learning skills in young children.
Lewis, B. A., Freebairn, L., Tag, J., Ciesla, A. A., Iyengar, S. K., Stein, C. M., & Taylor, H. G. (2015). Adolescent outcomes of children with early speech sound disorders with and without language impairment. American Journal of Speech - Language Pathology (Online), 24(2), 150-163. …show more content…
They wanted to do a study and compare those who had language impairments to those who did not. The participants were followed from early childhood to adolescence and were compared to those individuals who did not have histories of language or speech impairments. They discovered out that the individuals with SSD in their early years had poor outcomes contrast to those who has no history of SSD, the adolescents with SSD had a harder time learning as well. This article will be useful to the research paper because it talks about the outcomes of children with speech disorders that did not have proper