Exploring Speech Entrainment in English Children with a History of Late Talking: Validation, Group Differences, and Conversational Quality

Findings indicate that LT children adopt compensatory entrainment strategies, emphasizing proximity over synchrony, which may partly sustain conversational engagement despite underlying vulnerabilities. Entrainment measures, thus, offer a dynamic lens for understanding interactional challenges and hold promise as complementary tools for assessing and supporting communication in children with language delays.