Measure What You Treat: Using Language Sample Analysis for Grammatical Outcome Measures in Children with Developmental Language Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Language Sample Analysis (LSA) is commonly used to monitor progress for children with language disorders (Pavelko, Owens, Ireland, & Hahs-Vaughn, 2016). For children with grammar goals, pediatric SLPs report mean length of utterance (MLU) and type-token ratio (TTR) as the two LSA measures most commonly used (Finestack & Satterlund, 2018). For focused grammatical intervention, these measures may be ineffective in capturing treatment growth. In this clinical focus paper, we provide a preliminary comparison of four measures that could be considered as progress monitoring tools following intervention for one finiteness marker.

Methods

Pre- and post-treatment spontaneous language samples from six children with developmental language disorder (DLD) who underwent treatment

SUBMITTER: Gallagher JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12904304 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature