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Peer reviewedScott, Cheryl M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988
The article examines the child's ability to produce complex sentences with sections on a structural framework for complex language (clausal and nonclausal complexity), a developmental perspective (coordination of clauses, subordination of nominal, adverbial, and relative clauses), and applied considerations (evaluating and teaching complex…
Descriptors: Child Development, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedCampbell, Thomas F.; Dollaghan, Christine – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
This paper reviews basic social validity assessment techniques, discusses the constructs underlying direct magnitude estimation (DME), illustrates the use of DME for performing social validity evaluations of spontaneous language samples (with 3 brain-injured children, ages 10-15, and 3 controls), and discusses the relationship between subjective…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedBain, Barbara A.; And Others – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
This article on sampling early semantic productions reports a study of 6 children (ages 31-35 months) with specific language impairments. Subjects produced a greater frequency and diversity of multiword utterances in a free-play sampling situation than in a joint action routine sampling situation. (JDD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
