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Acquired Dyslexia in a Biscript Reader Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Second Case.
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Eng, Nancy; Obler, Loraine K. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2002
This case study examines the reading disruptions in a bilingual/biscriptal (Cantonese/English) older adult reader following traumatic brain injury. Certain characteristics of the subject's reading problems were evident in both writing systems (e.g., sensitivity to word frequency and lack of sensitivity to visual complexity) suggesting principles…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Case Studies, Dyslexia
A Procedure for Classifying Disruptions in Spontaneous Language Samples.
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Dollaghan, Christine A.; Campbell, Thomas F. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
Approaches to the analysis of utterance disruptions are reviewed, and a system is proposed for analyzing disruptions in spontaneous language, with four disruption categories (pauses, repetitions, revisions, and orphans). Use of the system is illustrated using language samples from 10 traumatically brain-injured and 10 normally developing speakers…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
A Method for Obtaining Listener Judgments of Spontaneously Produced Language: Social Validation through Direct Magnitude Estimation.
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Campbell, Thomas F.; Dollaghan, Christine – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
This paper reviews basic social validity assessment techniques, discusses the constructs underlying direct magnitude estimation (DME), illustrates the use of DME for performing social validity evaluations of spontaneous language samples (with 3 brain-injured children, ages 10-15, and 3 controls), and discusses the relationship between subjective…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language