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Gillon, Gail; McNeill, Brigid; Scott, Amy; Gath, Megan; Westerveld, Marleen – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
This study examined the validity of data collected from a novel online story retell task. The task was specifically designed for use by junior school teachers with the support of speech-language therapists or literacy specialists. The assessment task was developed to monitor children's oral language progress in their first year at school as part…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Story Telling, Validity, Speech Language Pathology
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Nation, Kate – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2019
Reading comprehension is a complex task which depends on a range of cognitive and linguistic processes. According to the Simple View of Reading, this complexity can be captured as the product of two sets of skills: decoding and linguistic comprehension. The Simple View explains variance in reading comprehension and provides a good framework to…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Preschool Children
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Rudolph, Johanna M.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2016
Delayed appearance of early language milestones can be one of the first signs of a developmental disorder. In this study, we investigated how well late acquisition of language milestones predicted an outcome of specific language impairment (SLI). The sample included 150 children (76 SLI), aged 4 to 7 years old. Milestone information was collected…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Accuracy, Developmental Delays