An articulation screening procedure that considered the phonological content of the child's error was compared to a procedure that treated all errors as equally important with 333 preschool children. Predicting eventual therapy placement was more accurate when only selected errors were used. (Author/DB)

This research report presents new young adult norms for the Test of Adolescent/Adult Language-3 (TOAL-3) using data from the Ottawa Speech and Language Study (N=242). It is thought this population better represents the full range of young adult language abilities (because the original norms included only individuals who pursued postsecondary…

Background: Before a school speech-language pathologist (SLP) utilises a standardised speech-language test with a student with intellectual disability (ID), the clinician should carefully consider the purpose of the test and whether the test includes students with ID in the normative group. Method: This project reviewed 49 tests published between…

A recently conducted survey has disclosed that during the past few years there has been a significant increase in the development of speaking tests. Examination of 100 speaking tests revealed many varieties and many considerations in preparing and using them. Among these are the purpose for its use, the background of the examinee, the criteria…

This, Part I of a longer work, is a study of the automatic recovery from speech defects. (CH)

This research project examined the relationship between measures of speaker effectiveness obtained from rating scales and those obtained from objective comprehension tests of speech content. Two studies were used in order to provide independently derived results which could be compared. In the first study, 49 undergraduate public-speaking students…

The study of language has had a greater impact on speech pathology and speech education than any other scholarly discipline in recent years. Researchers in the field of speech pathology must now give attention--especially in caring for the growing numbers of children found to have language difficulties--to the study of psycholinguistics. Work in…

The article presents a phonological process analysis classification for use with the most popular articulation tests, including a descriptive comparison across the tests of the number of opportunities for phonological patterns to be applied. (Author/DB)

Examined was the relationship between the presence of articulation disorders and performance on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) with 30 elementary grade children with either mild-moderate or moderate-severe articulation disorders. (DB)

Cluster analysis was used to identify two homogeneous clusters of 8 to 9 1/2 year old children (N=98) who misarticulated /s/, /r/, or both, then discriminant function analysis was used to identify a subset of five measures and compute classification scores for assignment of 42 new subjects to the clusters. (Author/MC)

Two cohorts of children (ages four and five, n=700) were screened with the Fluharty Preschool Speech and Language Screening Test. Results suggest that the Fluharty is too insensitive for screening programs aimed at identifying preschool children with language disorders, although it appears to have promise for the identification of children with…

Three Maximum Performance Tasks (Maximum Sound Prolongation, Fundamental Frequency Range, and Maximum Repetition Rate) were administered to 11 children (ages 6-11) with spastic dysarthria resulting from cerebral palsy and 11 controls. Despite intrasubject and intersubject variability in normal and pathological speakers, the tasks were found to be…

This article discusses the construction of tasks used to elicit vocal responses from preschool children with and without communication disorders. Procedures to elicit valid and reliable responses are proposed, and a sample assessment protocol is presented. (Author/DB)

Many speakers with repaired cleft palate have reduced intelligibility, but there are limitations with current procedures for assessing intelligibility. The aim of this study was to construct a single-word intelligibility test for speakers with cleft palate. The test used a multiple-choice identification format, and was based on phonetic contrasts…