Publication year: 2011
Source: Children and Youth Services Review, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 13 March 2011
Juan Manuel Moreno, Manso , Mª. Elena, García-Baamonde , Macarena Blázquez, Alonso
This article proposes an intervention program, designed specifically for children in residential care who suffer institutionalized abuse, aimed at stimulating their use of language. The objective of the intervention procedure is to improve children’s linguistic competence and their socio-affective development, as well as to enable parents to communicate and interact effectively with their children. Several studies have focused on the difficulties children suffering from abuse have with verbal expression and other areas of development. The research stresses the need to set up intervention programs that can improve the linguistic and social competence of children suffering from abuse. With such children,…