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Identifying Expressive Language Delay at Age Two.
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Rescorla, Leslie – Topics in Language Disorders, 1991
Two parent report inventories geared at assessing language skills in toddlers are examined, in terms of reliability, validity, and application. The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory: Toddlers and the Language Development Survey are compared and their combined use in handicap identification is discussed. (PB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Methods, Handicap Identification
The Language Development Survey: A Screening Tool for Delayed Language in Toddlers.
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Rescorla, Leslie – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
The paper reports data from four studies using the Language Development Survey (LDS), a screening tool for the identification of language delay in two-year-old children. The LDS was found to have excellent sensitivity and specificity. Prevalence data using the LDS are reported, comparing three different severity cutoffs. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Handicap Identification, Incidence, Language Handicaps
Concurrent Validity of the Language Development Survey: Associations with the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories
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Rescorla, Leslie; Ratner, Nan Bernstein; Jusczyk, Peter; Jusczyk, Anne Marie – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2005
This study examined the concurrent validity of the Language Development Survey (LDS), a 310-word parent report screening tool for language delay in toddlers, by testing its associations with the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories: Words and Sentences (CDI:WS), a 680-word parent report instrument. Participants were 239 toddlers…
Descriptors: Validity, Toddlers, Developmental Delays, Language Acquisition