Recasting or Book Reading by Parents or Clinicians

Inclusion Criteria

• •Child with DLD
• •Age: 4-9 years old
• •Primarily English speaking: as documented by 20% or less exposure to another language, per parent report on the MAPLE
• •Diagnosed with DLD as documented by standard score below 85 on the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation - Norm Referenced (DELV-NR) composite, a dialect neutral assessment (Seymour, Roeper, de Villiers, \& De Villiers, 2005).
• •Nonverbal Intelligence Quotient (IQ) within typical range as documented by a t-score at or above 35 on the Developmental Abilities Scale (DAS), matrices similarities subscale, (Elliott, 2007).
• •Hearing within the typical range: Pass screening at 25 dB for 1, 2, 4 kHz; OR scores within the typical range via SoundScouts hearing screening app; OR clear hearing assessment from an audiologist, otolaryngologist, medical doctor, or other professional.
• •No diagnosis of Autism: Cutoff score of 15 on the Social Communication Questionnaire, (Rutter, Bailey, \& Lord, 2003)
• •No diagnosis of significant sensory-motor concerns or significant psychiatric disorders per parent report
• •Able to benefit from treatment:
• •* Score below 60% correct on experimenter developed elicited production probes of passives and object relative clauses
• •* Producing simple transitive sentences (SVO) and mean length of utterance (MLU) of 2.5 on 100 utterance language sample
• •Caregiver
• •Serves as the primary caregiver for an eligible child (may include grandparents, etc.)
• •Basic literacy skills per self-report
• •Willing to participate in caregiver training and caregiver-based treatments if child is assigned to that condition
• •Willing to participate in questionnaires and structured interviews during post-test