The Reliability of Short Conversational Language Sample Measures in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Language sample analysis (LSA) represents an ecologically valid method for diagnosing, identifying goals, and measuring progress in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). LSA is, however, time consuming. The purpose of this study was to determine the length of sample needed to obtain reliable LSA measures for children in kindergarten and first grade with typical language (TL) and DLD using automated analyses from the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts software.

Method

Play-based conversational language samples collected on kindergarten to first-grade children with TL (n = 21) and DLD (n = 21) from a community-based sample were analyzed. Eight LSA measures were calculated from 1-, 3-, 5-, 7-, and 10-min sample cuts and compared to

SUBMITTER: Wilder A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9559652 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature