Acarlar, FundaBaykal, Gökçe2022-06-092022-06-092011http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/81440Purpose of this research is to analyze language usage properties of mother who direct it to their children have language delay. Working group of research consist of 20 children, 10 of them are normal development and the other 10 have language delay, and mothers of all children. Age range of normal development children are between 19-32 months and ages avarage is 15 month. Age range of children with language evolution retardation are between 33-60 months and ages avarage is 56 month. Participating mothers of normal development children consist of 2 primary school graduated, 5 secondary school graduated and 3 high school graduated. Participating mothers of children with language evolution retardation consist of 5 primary school graduated, 1 secondary school graduated and 3 high school graduated. One of them is only literate but no graduation.In this research, demographic data were collected by means of general data forms. Ankara Developmental Screening Inventory was applied to each child. Mother-child Interaction was recorded in free play context for 20 minutes. Sequences of records are recorded to ?Language Usage Behaviors? list shaped as a result of literature review and involves totally 31 behaviors. At list, primarly behaviors? descriptive statistics were cared, avarages, standard deviations, minimum and maximum values were calculated. Mann Whitney U Test was used.to examine the differences in behaviors between two groups.It was found that, mothers of children with language delay used less turn taking, joint attention, repetition, expantion, self-speech, making directive, prosedic tips usage, modeling and social play behaviors than mothers of normal develepment children.trDil gelişimidil kullanım özellikleriDil gelişiminde gecikme gösteren çocukların annelerinin çocuğa yöneltilmiş dil kullanım özelliklerinin incelenmesiInvestigation of mothers? child directed language properties to their children with language delaymasterThesis