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The Validity of Discrepancy Criteria for Identifying Children with Developmental Language Disorders.
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Aram, Dorothy M.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
Two studies addressing the clinical validity of discrepancy criteria for identification of children with developmental language disorders (DLD) are reported: one with 256 preschoolers clinically defined as DLD, and one with 363 8-year-old controls. Factors contributing to underidentification in Study 1 and overidentification in Study 2 are…
Descriptors: Criteria, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
A Test Using Elicited Imitations in Assessing Grammatical Structure in Children
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Carrow, Elizabeth – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1974
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research, Imitation, Language Handicaps
Language Sample Collection and Analysis: Interview Compared to Freeplay Assessment Contexts.
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Evans, Julia L.; Craig, Holly K. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Analysis of spontaneous language samples of 10 children (ages 8-9) with specific language impairments found that interviews were a reliable, valid, and efficient assessment context, eliciting the same profile of behaviors as a freeplay context without altering diagnostic classifications. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Discourse Analysis, Educational Diagnosis, Efficiency
A Method for Obtaining Listener Judgments of Spontaneously Produced Language: Social Validation through Direct Magnitude Estimation.
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Campbell, Thomas F.; Dollaghan, Christine – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
This paper reviews basic social validity assessment techniques, discusses the constructs underlying direct magnitude estimation (DME), illustrates the use of DME for performing social validity evaluations of spontaneous language samples (with 3 brain-injured children, ages 10-15, and 3 controls), and discusses the relationship between subjective…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
Identifying Expressive Language Delay at Age Two.
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Rescorla, Leslie – Topics in Language Disorders, 1991
Two parent report inventories geared at assessing language skills in toddlers are examined, in terms of reliability, validity, and application. The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory: Toddlers and the Language Development Survey are compared and their combined use in handicap identification is discussed. (PB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Methods, Handicap Identification
Evaluation of Minority-Language Children by Native Speakers.
Crago, Martha; Annahatak, Betsy – 1985
In an effort to develop non-biased assessment techniques for the native languages of native Canadians, and to facilitate identification and intervention for language disorders among native children, the ratings of children's Inuktitut language samples by an untrained Inuit teacher were compared with length complexity data derived by linguistic…
Descriptors: American Indians, Canada Natives, Children, Diagnostic Tests