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The Development and Validation of the Short Language Measure (SLaM): A Brief Measure of General Language Ability for Children in Their First Year at School
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Matov, Jessica; Mensah, Fiona; Cook, Fallon; Reilly, Sheena; Dowell, Richard – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: There is no sufficiently accurate short-language measure that could be used by speech-language pathologists, teachers or paraprofessionals to screen young school-aged children to identify those requiring in-depth language evaluations. This may be due to poor development of the available measures, which have omitted crucial test…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Screening Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity
Predicting Language Difficulties in Middle Childhood from Early Developmental Milestones: A Comparison of Traditional Regression and Machine Learning Techniques
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Armstrong, Rebecca; Symons, Martyn; Scott, James G.; Arnott, Wendy L.; Copland, David A.; McMahon, Katie L.; Whitehouse, Andrew J. O. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The current study aimed to compare traditional logistic regression models with machine learning algorithms to investigate the predictive ability of (a) communication performance at 3 years old on language outcomes at 10 years old and (b) broader developmental skills (motor, social, and adaptive) at 3 years old on language outcomes at 10…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Regression (Statistics), Language Tests, Predictive Validity