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Werfel, Krystal L.; Hendricks, Alison Eisel; Schuele, C. Melanie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was twofold. The first aim was to explore differences in profiles of past tense marking in oral reading of school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI). The second aim was to explore the potential of past tense marking in oral reading as a clinical marker of SLI in school-age children. Method: This…
Descriptors: Grammar, Oral Reading, Morphemes, Accuracy
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Werfel, Krystal L.; Krimm, Hannah – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the Spelling Sensitivity Score (SSS) beyond percentage correct scoring in analyzing the spellings of children with specific language impairment (SLI). Participants were 31 children with SLI and 28 children with typical language in grades 2-4. Spellings of individual words were scored using…
Descriptors: Spelling, Scores, Children, Language Impairments
Lindsay Meyer Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over the years, less attention is given to students' spelling skills compared to other areas of literacy achievement like word reading and passage comprehension in relationship to nonmainstream dialect usage. Considering that English spelling is based on the phonological and morphological structures of Mainstream American English (MAE), it is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Black Dialects, Spelling, Grade 1