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Early Identification of Developmental Language Delay: Feasibility of a Parent Questionnaire for Early Identification
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Carin H. Wiefferink; Conja Adriaanse; Margot van Denderen; Carla van Schie; Noëlle N. Uilenburg – Infants and Young Children, 2024
Despite the importance of identifying children with developmental language delay, no accurate screening instruments are available for 3-year-olds. The aim of the present study is to compare the accuracy of the General Language Screen (GLS), focusing on receptive and expressive language and intelligibility with the accuracy of the VTO Language…
Descriptors: Identification, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language, Preschool Children
Assessment and Therapy Goal Planning Using Free Computerized Language Analysis Software
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Ratner, Nan Bernstein; MacWhinney, Brian – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023
Background: We discuss a free software system (Computerized Language Analysis [CLAN]) that can enable fast, thorough, and informative language sample analysis (LSA). Method: We describe methods for eliciting, transcribing, analyzing, and interpreting language samples. Using a hypothetical child speaker, we illustrate use KidEval to generate a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Goal Orientation, Computational Linguistics, Syntax
Early Identification of Children with Developmental Delay and Behavioural Problems According to Parents Concerns in the Republic of Serbia
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Ilic, Snežana B.; Nikolic, Snežana J.; Ilic-Stošovic, Danijela D.; Golubovic, Špela S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The main goal of this research was to describe the type and level of parents' concerns about child development and behaviour according to the PEDS test (Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status). The sample included 289 parents of children from three to seven years of age, from two preschool institutions in Serbia. A significantly high…
Descriptors: Identification, Developmental Delays, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language
Pragmatic Functions of Toddlers Who Are Late Talkers
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MacRoy-Higgins, Michelle; Kaufman, Ilana – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2012
Toddlers who are "late talkers" demonstrate reduced expressive vocabulary in the absence of physical, social, cognitive, or sensory impairment; they are usually identified at age 2, when they produce fewer than 50 words and do not combine words (Rescorla, 1989). This study analyzed spontaneous language samples of 10 late talking toddlers and 11…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics
Profiles of Toddlers with Delayed Expressive Language Development.
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Paul, Rhea – 1989
This study used several measures to compare 40 toddlers with delays in expressive language and 40 children acquiring language normally. Findings indicated that children with small expressive vocabularies at 2 years of age are not different from their normally speaking peers in terms of hearing, history of ear infections, birth order, or pre- or…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language
APHASIC CHILDREN, IDENTIFICATION AND EDUCATION BY THE ASSOCIATION METHOD.
MCGINNIS, MILDRED A. – 1963
THIS BOOK IS DESIGNED TO DEFINE APHASIA AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS, TO PRESENT A PROCEDURE FOR TEACHING LANGUAGE TO APHASIC CHILDREN, AND TO APPLY THIS PROCEDURE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUBJECTS. OTHER HANDICAPPING CONDITIONS WHICH COMPLICATE THE DIAGNOSIS OF APHASIA ARE PRESENTED BY MEANS OF CASE STUDIES. CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO TYPES OF…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Case Studies, Children, Delayed Speech