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Komeili, Mariam; Marshall, Chloe R. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2013
Bilingual children are frequently misdiagnosed as having Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Misdiagnosis may be minimized by tests with high degrees of sensitivity and specificity. The current study used a new test, the School-Age Sentence Imitation Test-English 32 (SASIT-E32), to investigate sentence repetition in monolingual and bilingual…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Language Impairments, Bilingualism
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Schmid, Gabriele; Thielmann, Anke; Ziegler, Wolfram – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Patients with lesions of the left hemisphere often suffer from oral-facial apraxia, apraxia of speech, and aphasia. In these patients, visual features often play a critical role in speech and language therapy, when pictured lip shapes or the therapist's visible mouth movements are used to facilitate speech production and articulation. This demands…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Speech Impairments, Imitation, Patients
Abdellah, Antar Solhy – Online Submission, 2007
Egyptian English majors in the faculty of Education, South Valley University tend to mistranslate the plural inanimate Arabic pronoun with the singular inanimate English pronoun. A diagnostic test was designed to analyze this error. Results showed that a large number of students (first year and fourth year students) make this error, that the error…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Form Classes (Languages), Semitic Languages, English (Second Language)