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Albudoor, Nahar; Peña, Elizabeth D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The differential diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual children represents a unique challenge due to their distributed language exposure and knowledge. The current evidence indicates that dual-language testing yields the most accurate classification of DLD among bilinguals, but there are limited personnel and…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Bilingualism, Clinical Diagnosis, Language Tests
Durán, Lillian K.; Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha K.; Kohlmeier, Theresa L.; Brunner, Stephanie K.; Palma, Jose; Callard, Chase H. – Grantee Submission, 2019
The population of Spanish-speaking preschoolers in the United States continues to increase and there is a significant need to develop psychometrically sound early language and literacy screening measures to accurately capture children's ability in Spanish. In this paper, we describe the innovative design and calibration process of the new…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Screening Tests, Oral Language
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Zebib, Racha; Henry, Guillemette; Messarra, Camille; Hreich, Edith Kouba; Khomsi, Abdelhamid – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
The ELO-L (Évaluation du langage oral chez l'enfant libanais) is the first norm-referenced language-screening test in Lebanon. It is an adaptation of the ELO, a French language-screening test. The ELO-L was normed on 1,718 children aged three to eight years and divided into eight age groups with a minimum of 100 participants in each group. It is…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, Oral Language, Screening Tests
Durán, Lillian K.; Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha K.; Kohlmeier, Theresa L.; Brunner, Stephanie K.; Palma, Jose; Callard, Chase H. – Grantee Submission, 2019
The population of Spanish-speaking preschoolers in the United States continues to increase and there is a significant need to develop psychometrically sound early language and literacy screening measures to accurately capture children's ability in Spanish. In this paper, we describe the innovative design and calibration process of the new…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Psychometrics, Screening Tests
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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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Channell, Ron W.; Peek, Michelle S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1989
Thirty-six children, aged four-five, completed four vocabulary measures: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised, Picture Vocabulary subtest of the Test of Oral Language Development, Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, and Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test. Only moderate correlations were found among these tests, implying that a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Expressive Language, Handicap Identification, Learning Disabilities