The study analyzed the temporal delays and pauses associated with neologisms produced by Finnish posterior aphasics. Delays and pauses appeared to correlate with the type of neology they preceded. (Author)

Nine speakers with verbal apraxia repeated 12 consonant-vowel-consonant target syllables four times each. Significantly more errors were produced in voiced than in voiceless contexts. Sixty-six percent of productions were produced in the same manner for first and last trials. (Author/DB)

Discusses the problems in obtaining data for the error analysis of deviant speech. It is suggested that the only way to obtain reliable data is to compare the difference between utterances of handicapped subjects and the analyzer's expectations with the differences of non-handicapped subjects and the analyzer's expectations. (Author/AMH)

The article describes a method for assessing children's production of certain grammatical structures, including noun and verb markers, pronouns, negative forms, and interrogative inversion. (Author)

Three methods for evaluating change in the spontaneous language of aphasic subjects were compared. Clinical judgments of experienced speech language pathologists showed excellent agreement with the Shewan Spontaneous Language Analysis (SSLA) and less agreement with the Western Aphasia Battery. The SSLA was found to provide the most comprehensive…

The prevalence of speech and hearing impairment was examined in a sample of 518 mentally retarded persons (mean age 35 years) currently residing in community residential facilities. The prevalence of speech impairment was found to be approximately 51 percent, while hearing impairment was found in about 15 percent of the sample. (Author)

The article points out the most frequently occurring problems in pragmatic functions of children's language, reviews considerations in taking and analyzing spontaneous language samples, and provides a summary of a dialog sample. (Author/CL)

This article describes and presents in full an instrument for assessing the speech-language skills of limited English proficient children. The role of the speech-language specialist on the assessment team is stressed. (Author/DB)

A clinical method of assessing speech and language development in preschool children is described as 62 three-year-old children were assessed by a pediatrician, a speech therapist, and a psychologist. (Author)

A survey of 239 school-based speech-language pathologists revealed that respondents routinely supplement quantitative assessment procedures with language sample analyses, are sensitive to the effects of some contextual variables on sample representativeness, and use language sampling information to assist in planning intervention services.…

Thirty language-impaired, reading-impaired, and normal children, aged 6:8-8:10, were administered eight tasks in word repetition, rapid naming, syllable segmentation, paper folding, and form completion. Controls performed better than the subjects on all but two tasks, and the language-impaired and reading-impaired children performed comparably on…

This response to EC 604 058 argues that Marc Fey's emphasis on language organization at the morpheme and word level is not efficacious with preschool children who show phonological delay and delayed semantic-syntactic development. A model of verbal communication which unites phonetic, phonological, and higher organizational levels and related…

Spanish-speaking children of Mexican descent living in California were tested on the acquisition of 18 Spanish consonants. The 120 subjects (aged 3 to 5:7 years) were equally divided into eight age groups, and the median ages (50%) and upper age limits (90%) of customary production of each consonant were determined. (Author/JDD)

This article clarifies the role of the speech-language pathologist in service provision to students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). It addresses variables to be considered in service provision, cognitive deficits that interfere with speech and language function, types of speech and language deficits following TBI, and guidelines for assessing…

A study was conducted to test the utility of a protocol, consisting of 30 pragmatic parameters of language, to evaluate conversational speech from 157 subjects in six diagnostic groups. Four distinct profiles emerged separating the diagnostic groups within which differences in the distribution of pragmatic deficits were identified. (Author/KM)