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The Development and Validation of the Short Language Measure (SLaM): A Brief Measure of General Language Ability for Children in Their First Year at School
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Matov, Jessica; Mensah, Fiona; Cook, Fallon; Reilly, Sheena; Dowell, Richard – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: There is no sufficiently accurate short-language measure that could be used by speech-language pathologists, teachers or paraprofessionals to screen young school-aged children to identify those requiring in-depth language evaluations. This may be due to poor development of the available measures, which have omitted crucial test…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Screening Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity