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Castilla-Earls, Anny; Petersen, Douglas; Spencer, Trina; Hammer, Krista – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to describe differences in the narratives produced by 3-, 4-, and 5- year old Spanish-speaking (SS) children. Narrative productions of 104 typically developing children were collected using a story-retelling task and coded using the Index of Narrative Complexity. The results of this study indicate…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Personal Narratives, Story Telling
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Madison, Charles L.; Wong, Elizabeth Y. F. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1992
This study, involving 20 children (ages 4-11) with severe hearing impairments, affirmed the content validity of the Clark-Madison Test of Oral Language as a measure of nonwritten expressive language with hearing-impaired children. Performance comparison with hearing individuals revealed a different profile of strengths and weaknesses than did…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Validity, Deafness, Elementary Education
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Westby, Carol E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1990
The article presents a framework for understanding the pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, text, and phonological aspects of language that underlie both oral and written communication. It gives suggestions for ways speech-language pathologists can assess children's language skills that are essential for success in a whole language program. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps