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plosives. C11 was unable to narrate the Cinderella story either in spoken or in
written form. Despite comprehension difficulties it was evident that C11
understood all instructions especially when given demonstration. It was
predicted that C11 would find it difficult to demonstrate the learning of new
vocabulary due to her severe language impairment.
5.16.1.4 Rehearsal and consolidation of learning
Similar to C9 and C10, C11 required guidance organising her independent
learning time. She listened to the audio recording and practised some of the
assessment tasks. This was required for each of the four training sessions and
although C11 was offered the full 30 minutes for each session she chose to
utilise 50% of the allotted independent learning time.
5.16.2 Demonstration of learning the new vocabulary
C11’s performance on each assessment task is presented in Table 5.31 below
with a summary of her ability to learn the new vocabulary for immediate recall
assessments.
5.16.2.1 Immediate recall
C11 was unable to recall any of the 20 new words either in spoken or in written
form. Due to unintelligible speech she did not read aloud. She recognised nine
words for listening tasks and three words for the reading recognition tasks but
had five false positive and one false negative response. C11 also had three
false negative and five false positive responses for the baseline results. C11
was able to match one word (listening) and eight words (reading) to the correct
pictures. She also matched eight new words to their correct syllable number and
matched initial syllables for four words to their correct final syllable. C11 did not
wish to take part in the delayed recall assessment phase.
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