Diagnostic Accuracy of Sentence Recall and Past Tense Measures for Identifying Children's Language Impairments.

ABSTRACT: Purpose Measures of linguistic processing and grammatical proficiency represent strong candidates for adaptation into language screeners for early elementary students. One key barrier, however, has been the lack of consensus around the preferred reference standard for assigning affected status. Diagnostic accuracies associated with sentence recall and past tense marking index measures were examined relative to 5 different reference standards of language impairment: receipt of language services, clinically significant levels of parental concern, low performance on language measures, a composite requiring at least 2 of these indicators, and a composite requiring convergence across all indicators. Method One thousand sixty grade K-3 students participated in school-based language screenings. A

SUBMITTER: Redmond SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6808358 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature