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Friberg, Jennifer C. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010
Nine preschool and school-age language assessment tools found to have acceptable levels of identification accuracy were evaluated to determine their overall levels of psychometric validity for use in diagnosing the presence/absence of language impairment. Eleven specific criteria based on those initially devised by McCauley and Swisher (1984) were…
Descriptors: Test Selection, Language Impairments, Test Validity, Psychometrics
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McCabe, Allyssa; Bliss, Lynn; Barra, Gabriela; Bennett, MariBeth – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008
Purpose: Personal narratives are common in children's conversations, recommended as the appropriate genre for early writing by educators, and part of many high-stakes tests, possibly because they tend to be better formed than fictional narratives. However, current practice in the field of speech-language pathology employs fictional narratives in…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Language Impairments, High Stakes Tests, Speech Language Pathology
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Lloyd, Helen; Paintin, Kath; Botting, Nicola – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2006
Three groups of children with communication disorders were assessed using the CELF (Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals). The results were used to compare the language skills of children with specific language impairment (SLI), autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and a middle group who shared some characteristics of both SLI and ASD (Shared…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Sentences, Communication Disorders, Autism