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Direct linkRice, Mabel L.; Redmond, Sean M.; Hoffman, Lesa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: Although mean length of utterance (MLU) is a useful benchmark in studies of children with specific language impairment (SLI), some empirical and interpretive issues are unresolved. The authors report on 2 studies examining, respectively, the concurrent validity and temporal stability of MLU equivalency between children with SLI and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Validity, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition
Miles, Sally; Chapman, Robin; Sindberg, Heidi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: The authors describe the procedures used to explain an unexpected finding that adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) had a lower mean length of utterance (MLU) than typically developing (TD) children in interviews without picture support, but not in narratives supported by wordless picture books. They hypothesize that the picture support of…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Adolescents, Down Syndrome, Comparative Analysis
