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Remote First-Language Assessment: Feasibility Study with Vietnamese Bilingual Children and Their Caregivers
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Dam, Quynh Diem; Pham, Giang T. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: There is a shortage of bilingual speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in the United States. For Vietnamese, less than 1% of SLPs speak the language compared with a Vietnamese American population of > 2.1 million. This study examines the feasibility and social validity of remote child language assessment with the help of a caregiver to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Tests, Native Language
The Development and Validation of the Short Language Measure (SLaM): A Brief Measure of General Language Ability for Children in Their First Year at School
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Matov, Jessica; Mensah, Fiona; Cook, Fallon; Reilly, Sheena; Dowell, Richard – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: There is no sufficiently accurate short-language measure that could be used by speech-language pathologists, teachers or paraprofessionals to screen young school-aged children to identify those requiring in-depth language evaluations. This may be due to poor development of the available measures, which have omitted crucial test…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Screening Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity
Online Administration of the Test of Narrative Language--Second Edition: Psychometrics and Considerations for Remote Assessment
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Beula M. Magimairaj; Philip Capin; Sandra L. Gillam; Sharon Vaughn; Greg Roberts; Anna-Maria Fall; Ronald B. Gillam – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Our aim was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the online administered format of the Test of Narrative Language--Second Edition (TNL-2; Gillam & Pearson, 2017), given the importance of assessing children's narrative ability and considerable absence of psychometric studies of spoken language assessments administered online.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Story Telling, Language Impairments
Manipulating Articulatory Demands in Non-Word Repetition: A "Late-8" Non-Word Repetition Task
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Moore, Michelle W.; Tompkins, Connie A.; Dollaghan, Christine A. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The purpose of this paper was to examine the psychometric properties of a non-word repetition task (NRT), the Late-8 Non-word Repetition Task (L8NRT). This task was designed similarly to the NRT, but contains only Late-8 consonants to increase articulatory demands and avoid ceiling effects in studies with adolescents and adults. Thirty college…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Mastery Tests, Repetition, College Students
Test-Retest Comparisons Using the CELF-RST and BLT-2S with Kindergartners.
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Summers, Patricia A.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1996
Kindergarten children (n=101) were tested on the Bankson Language Test Second Edition and the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Revised Screening Test and were given the tests again 7 months later. Results showed that the children scored higher on both tests at the second administration, without intervention from a speech-language…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Methods, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
What to Look for in the Technical Manual: Twenty Questions for Users.
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Hutchinson, Thomas A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1996
This article uses a question-and-answer format to describe the major categories of technical information usually presented in technical manuals for tests used by speech/language clinicians, including logical evidence of validity, empirical evidence of validity, types of reliability estimates, and practical issues in applying standardization data…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Tests, Psychometrics