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Le Normand, M. T.; Chevrie-Muller, C. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1991
Eight preschool children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 30 nonimpaired children were selected on the basis of specified mean length of utterance (MLU) ranges and compared on word class production. The high-MLU and low-MLU groups of SLI children could not be empirically differentiated based on their word class profiles, whereas the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Form Classes (Languages), Language Handicaps, Language Patterns