The effect of book genre in the repeated readings of mothers and their children with language impairment: a pilot investigation

Abstract

This pilot investigation compared the language use of mothers and their four children with language impairment during in-home readings of two storybook genres. Mother-child dyads repeatedly read two book genres, narrative-only and narrative + manipulative storybooks. The language output during the repeated readings was transcribed and analysed for utterance and discourse features. Mother language output did not vary across book genre, whereas the children demonstrated greater mean length of utterance and increased percentage of question use during the narrative + manipulative book interactions relative to narrative-only interactions. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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