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John, Sunila; Veena, Kadiyali D.; Nelson, Hanna; Aithal, Venkataraja Udupi; Patil, Rekha; Rajashekhar, Bellur – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
Various speech metrics have been developed to assess and monitor phonological development in young children. Process Density Index (PDI) is one such measure employed to determine the severity of phonological errors and speech intelligibility. The present study explored the utility of PDI as a measure of phonological development in 756…
Descriptors: Phonology, Scores, Intelligibility, Child Language
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Yliherva, Anneli; Loukusa, Soile; Vaisanen, Raija; Pyper, Amanda; Moilanen, Irma – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2009
The communication skills of typically developing Finnish-speaking children between three and six years of age were examined using the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC). The differences between the boys and girls were also investigated. Results showed that the performance of the three-year-old children differed on the Speech subscale of the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Rhetoric, Syntax, Preschool Children
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Adamson-Macedo, Elvidina N.; Patel, Reena; Sallah, David K. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2009
Speech and language difficulties can be indicative of other cognitive, social and developmental problems. Tools used in the UK have not (1) targeted two-year-old children, (2) included both parents' reports and independent observations, and (3) simultaneously evaluated expression, understanding and speech. This cross-sectional study of two…
Descriptors: Reliability, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Language Acquisition