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Annette Esbensen; Emily Grenner – Deafness & Education International, 2023
In this study, a narrative-based language intervention (NBLI) is evaluated in children with HL based on selected narrative outcome measures important for telling and retelling stories. Nine Danish children with slight to severe sensorineural HL in the age range of 4;11-8;8 years participated. The study had a single-arm early efficacy design. The…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Hearing Impairments, Young Children, Program Effectiveness
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Lone Sundahl Olsen; Kristine Jensen de López – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Research on the grammatical characteristics of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) across languages has challenged accounts about the nature of DLD. Studies of the characteristics of DLD in different languages can reveal which components of DLD emerge irrespective of language and which components are language specific.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Language Impairments, Grammar
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Vassiliu, Chrysoula; Mouzaki, Angeliki; Antoniou, Faye; Ralli, Asimina M.; Diamanti, Vassiliki; Papaioannou, Sophia; Katsos, Napoleon – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2023
The few reports on the language skills of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) offer conflicting evidence on whether they face significant challenges, and if so, whether these challenges are present in all aspects of language. Here, we investigated a sample of Greek-speaking children with ADHD (n = 29) using a structural…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen; Macinska, Sylwia – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
There has been controversy around the practice of providing accommodations, with some suggesting that they may give an unfair advantage rather than level the playing field. If that were the case, the assessment results of students with accommodations could be inflated, leading to a detrimental effect on the assessment's validity. This research…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, High Stakes Tests, Scores, Student Characteristics
Yun-Kyung Kim; Li Cai – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2024
This report describes a calibration, scoring, and reporting method applicable to an assessment requiring aggregation at multiple levels. We demonstrate the method using an example of an assessment that targets a small and diverse population, an English language proficiency assessment for English learners with the most significant cognitive…
Descriptors: Scoring, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, English Learners
Indiana Department of Education, 2023
The Indiana Department of Education's (IDOE's) Accessibility and Accommodations Information for Statewide Assessments is intended for school-level personnel and decision-making teams as they prepare for and implement Indiana statewide assessments. Information is provided for school personnel as a reference to inform guidance on universal features,…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Accessibility (for Disabled), Measurement, English (Second Language)
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Liset Rouweler; Ben Maassen; Sanne Oud; Barry de Groot; Wim Tops – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2025
Reading is one of the most important skills in higher education. Various students show problems with reading, which can lead to problems with text decoding, reading comprehension, or both. In this study, we investigate the L1 (Dutch) and L2 (English) reading comprehension performance of students with and without dyslexia. Participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Second Languages, Reading Comprehension
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Randez, Robert A.; Cornell, Caitlin – Language Testing, 2023
Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a unifying cause within applied linguistics. Whether highlighting the experiences of linguistically diverse learners across the social class spectrum or advocating for the inclusion of marginalized populations in research, researchers within the subfields of applied linguistics have…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Language Tests, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion
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Aine M. Mooney Mahan; Allison Bean; Amy Miller Sonntag – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
Communicative competence for people who use augmentative and alternative communication consists of four interrelated domains: linguistic, strategic, social, and operational. Ongoing assessment and progress monitoring within these domains are crucial to (a) providing information to teach targeted skills in a manner contextualized within the…
Descriptors: Children, Students with Disabilities, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Assistive Technology
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Guzman-Orth, Danielle; Steinberg, Jonathan; Albee, Traci – Language Testing, 2023
Standardizing accessible test design and development to meet students' individual access needs is a complex task. The following study provides one approach to accessible test design and development using participatory design methods with school community members. Participatory research provides opportunities to empower collaborators by co-creating…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Blindness, Visual Impairments, Testing Accommodations
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Chung, Seungwon; Cai, Li – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
In the research reported here, we propose a new method for scale alignment and test scoring in the context of supporting students with disabilities. In educational assessment, students from these special populations take modified tests because of a demonstrated disability that requires more assistance than standard testing accommodation. Updated…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Scoring, Achievement Tests, Test Items
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de Valenzuela, J. S.; Pacheco, Rosalía; Shenoy, Sunaina – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2022
The use of alternate English language proficiency (Alt-ELP) assessments is an emerging phenomenon with real-life consequences for students with complex support needs from language minority homes. Our examination of U.S. state practices during the 2017-2018 academic year for the identification of English learners (ELs) with complex support needs…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Special Needs Students
Suahuil Carolina Valerio – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study evaluated how teaching models for language acquisition--the Integrated, the Stand-Alone and the Mixed Model--and student characteristics--gender and disability status--relate to growth in language skills among ELL students. In this study, the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test scores of the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, English Language Learners, Teaching Models, Student Characteristics
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Tribushinina, Elena; Niemann, Geke; Meuwissen, Joyce – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
This article is one of the first attempts to study the mechanisms of foreign language learning by children with DLD. We test the effectiveness of a cognate intervention aiming to enhance cross-linguistic awareness of Dutch-speaking primary-school pupils with DLD, as part of their English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum. The participants…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities
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Christensen, Laurene L.; Shyyan, Vitaliy V.; MacMillan, Fabiana – Language Testing, 2023
In order to make assessments as widely accessible as possible, including to young learners from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of individual needs and characteristics, some developers of standardized tests have resorted to offering accessibility tools (e.g., magnifying/zoom) and accommodations (e.g., extended response time) to test takers.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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