Questioning development: Introduction to Special Issue
Tags: CHILDREN -- Language -- Testing; LANGUAGE & languages -- Ability testing; LITERACY; LANGUAGE & education; INTELLECT; CHILD development
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Purpose: To determine the psychometric properties of the Preschool Repetition (PSRep) Test (Roy & Chiat, 2004), to establish the range of performance in typically developing children and variables affecting this performance, and to compare the performance of clinically referred children. Method:...
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This paper reports work in progress to develop an assessment procedure for expressive language, to be used with children living in the Rochdale area of the UK and speaking Mirpuri, Punjabi and/or Urdu. The assessment materials and procedure are described, together with the principles for...
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This study investigated the accuracy of online language sample data collection. Language samples were collected from 22 preschoolers (11 with language impairments and 11 typically developing) using a semiscripted, play-based sampling procedure designed to elicit 50 target verbs. During each...
- Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale. // Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (2009);2009, Issue 21, p466
A definition of the medical term "Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale," which refers to an office test intended for evaluating language development in children, is presented.
- Discourse Skills of Boys With Fragile X Syndrome in Comparison to Boys With Down Syndrome. Roberts, Joanne; Martin, Gary E.; Moskowitz, Lauren; Harris, Adrianne A.; Foreman, Jamila; Nelson, Lauren // Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research;Apr2007, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p475
Purpose: This study compared the conversational discourse skills of boys who have fragile X syndrome with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with those of boys with Down syndrome and boys who are typically developing. Method: Participants were boys who have fragile X syndrome with (n =...
- The Factors of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities: A Comparison of 18 Factor Analyses. Ryckman, David B.; Wiegerink, Ronald // Exceptional Children;Oct1969, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p107
This study factor analyzed the correlation matrices of a number of studies involving the ITPA. All of the correlation matrices were analyzed on the same program using the same criteria to examine trends between studies. More factors tended to appear as chronological age increased. Although there...
- Early Identification of Children with Learning Disabilities. Haring, Norris G.; Ridgway, Robert W. // Exceptional Children;Feb1967, Vol. 33 Issue 6, p387
Forty-eight kindergarten classes including over 1,200 children were screened for potential learning disorders. Kindergarten teachers used objective observations of the children's performance on gross muscle coordination, verbal fluency, speech development, auditory memory, auditory...
- Speech-Sound Discrimination Ability on Linguistically Unbiased Tests. Bryen, Diane N. // Exceptional Children;Jan1976, Vol. 42 Issue 4, p195
Traditional testing practices have been considered by some educators as discriminatory against minority groups. These practices are thought to have led to a disproportionate number of black and Spanish speaking children being placed in special classes as a result of their poor performance" on...
- Assessment of Language Skills in Rural Preschool Children. Smith, Tina T.; Myers-Jennings, Corine; Coleman, Thalia // Communication Disorders Quarterly;Winter2000, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p98
This study examined the extent to which linguistic variation in the English language might have been affecting the performance of 160 rural preschool children in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on four commonly used standardized tests. The children, ages 3-0 to 5-11 years, were administered the...
