Understanding of subordinate clauses in the language of dysphasic children

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the research of peculiarities of syntactic development, as an element of language structure on the grammatical level of children suffering from developmental dysphasia, after the completed speech pathology treatment of many years. Syntactic level at younger school age was studied by assessing language competence in the accomplishment of communicative sentence with subordinate clause. The research was performed on the samples of children at school age in regular primary schools in Belgrade. The sample comprised 160 respondents who were divided in two groups: target and comparative. The target group consisted of 60 respondents (children suffering from developmental dysphasia after the completed speech pathology treatment of many years), and the comparative group consisted of 100 respondents from regular primary school "Gavrilo Princip" in Zemun. Research results show that grammatical development of children suffering from developmental dysphasia takes place at a considerably slower rate and entails substantially more difficulties in accomplishing predication in subordinate clauses. This paper discusses the consequences which the difficulties in grammatical development can have on school achievement.

U radu su izloženi rezultati istraživanja specifičnosti sintaksičkog razvoja, kao elementa jezičke strukture na gramatičkom nivou dece sa razvojnom disfazijom, posle završenog dugogodišnjeg logopedskog tretmana. Sintaksički nivo na mlađem školskom uzrastu ispitivali smo procenjujući jezičku kompetenciju u ostvarivanju komunikativne rečenice sa zavisnom klauzom. Istraživanje je obavljeno na uzorcima dece školskog uzrasta u redovnim osnovnim školama u Beogradu. Uzorak je činilo 160 ispitanika koji su podeljeni u dve grupe: ciljnu i komparativnu. Ciljna grupa je sastavljena od 60 ispitanika (deca sa razvojnom disfazijom posle završenog dugogodišnjeg logopedskog tretmana), a komparativna od 100 ispitanika redovne osnovne škole "Gavrilo Princip" u Zemunu. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da gramatički razvoj kod dece sa razvojnom disfazijom teče znatno sporije i podrazumeva mnogo više teškoća u ostvarivanju predikacije u zavisnim klauzama. U radu su razmotrene posledice koje teškoće u gramatičkom razvoju mogu imati na školsko postignuće.