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Screening for the Identification of Oral Language Difficulties in Brazilian Preschoolers: A Validation Study
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Puglisi, Marina L.; Blasi, Helena F.; Snowling, Margaret J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: This study aimed to develop and validate a screening questionnaire for the early identification of language difficulties in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking preschool children. Method: The article is divided into two studies. In the first study, we reported the theoretical principles that guided the development of the Screening for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Screening Tests
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Scale of Auditory Behaviors Questionnaire
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Skarzynski, Henryk; Bienkowska, Katarzyna; Gos, Elzbieta; Skarzynski, Piotr Henryk; Grudzien, Diana; Czajka, Natalia; Wolujewicz, Kinga; Wlodarczyk, Elzbieta – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: Children with (central) auditory processing disorder [(C)APD] exhibit many cognitive difficulties and receive negative psychosocial consequences from their disorder. Diagnosis of (C)APD relies on multidisciplinary assessment, including psychological testing. There is a strong need for valid and reliable questionnaires to identify children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Auditory Perception, Perceptual Impairments, Questionnaires
Intelligibility in Context Scale: Normative and Validation Data for English-Speaking Preschoolers
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McLeod, Sharynne; Crowe, Kathryn; Shahaeian, Ameneh – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe normative and validation data on the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS; McLeod, Harrison, & McCormack, 2012c) for English-speaking children. Method: The ICS is a 7-item, parent-report measure of children's speech intelligibility with a range of communicative partners. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Articulation (Speech), Communication Skills, Measures (Individuals)
Language-Impaired Children's Comprehension of Synthesized Speech.
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Massey, Holly J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1988
The Token Test for Children was given in both synthesized-speech and natural-speech versions to 11 language impaired children (aged 8-10 years) and to 11 control subjects. Scores of the impaired children on the synthesized version were significantly lower than the synthesized-speech scores of the control group or of their own scores on the…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Elementary Education, Language Handicaps, Language Tests
Acoustic Reflectometry versus Tympanometry in Pediatric Middle Ear Screenings.
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Holmes, Alice E.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1989
Use of acoustic reflectometry was compared with tympanometry in middle ear screenings for 357 children, aged 5 months to 19 years. Results were analyzed according to sex, age, and sensorineural hearing status. Intratest reliability was highly significant and positive predictive accuracy and specificity rates were excellent, but sensitivity rates…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Diagnostic Tests, Ears, Elementary Secondary Education
Test-Retest Comparisons Using the CELF-RST and BLT-2S with Kindergartners.
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Summers, Patricia A.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1996
Kindergarten children (n=101) were tested on the Bankson Language Test Second Edition and the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Revised Screening Test and were given the tests again 7 months later. Results showed that the children scored higher on both tests at the second administration, without intervention from a speech-language…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Methods, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children