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Runnion, Elizabeth A.; Pierce, Melissa; Restrepo, Maria Adelaida – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the change in specific English microstructure features according to language ability in preschool Spanish-English dual language learners. Method: We collected English narratives from 22 Spanish-English dual language learners with typical language development (TD) and 22 Spanish-English dual language…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Spanish, English
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Gillon, Gail; McNeill, Brigid; Scott, Amy; Gath, Megan; Westerveld, Marleen – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
This study examined the validity of data collected from a novel online story retell task. The task was specifically designed for use by junior school teachers with the support of speech-language therapists or literacy specialists. The assessment task was developed to monitor children's oral language progress in their first year at school as part…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Story Telling, Validity, Speech Language Pathology
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Westerveld, Marleen F.; Filiatrault-Veilleux, Pamela; Paynter, Jessica – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2021
Background and aims: The purpose of the current exploratory study was to describe the inferential narrative comprehension skills of young school-age children on the autism spectrum who, as a group, are at high risk of significant and persistent reading comprehension difficulties. Our aim was to investigate whether the anticipated difficulties in…
Descriptors: Inferences, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Narration, Story Telling