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Direct linkFrazier, Thomas W.; Hauschild, Kathryn M.; Klingemier, Eric; Strauss, Mark S.; Hardan, Antonio Y.; Youngstrom, Eric A. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: Language assessment is a key element of evaluations of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The present study examined the validity of a gaze-based receptive language index (RLI) in predicting language test results.Method: Participants included toddlers, pre-school, and school age children and adolescents…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Neurological Impairments, Evaluation Methods
Ellawadi, Allison Bean; Weismer, Susan Ellis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether scoring of the gestures point, give, and show were correlated across measurement tools used to assess gesture production in children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Method: Seventy-eight children with ASD between the ages of 23 and 37 months participated. Correlational analyses…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Scoring, Correlation, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Marshall, Althea T. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to examine the impact of Chromosome 4p- syndrome on the communication and expressive language phenotype of a large cross-cultural population of children, adolescents, and adults. Method: A large-scale survey study was conducted and a descriptive research design was used to analyze quantitative and…
Descriptors: Research Design, Investigations, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Hasson, Natalie; Botting, Nicola – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010
This article describes the construction of a procedure for dynamic assessment of the expressive grammar of children already identified with language impairments. Few instruments exist for the dynamic assessment of language, and those that have been developed have been largely used to successfully differentiate language impaired from culturally…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Expressive Language, Grammar
Peer reviewedWiig, Elisabeth H.; Zureich, Patricia; Chan, Hei-Ning Helen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2000
Comparison of rapid automatized naming in 136 children and youth with primary language disorders and 2,450 typical children and youth found naming time (but not accuracy) differed significantly between groups, especially in the color-shape naming task. Findings indicate that the requirements for two-dimensional, continuous naming resulted in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
Ukrainetz, Teresa A.; Justice, Laura M.; Kaderavek, Joan N.; Eisenberg, Sarita L.; Gillam, Ronald B.; Harm, Heide M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Purpose: This study analyzed the development of expressive elaboration in fictional narratives for school-age children. Method: The analysis was derived from high-point analysis, but it was tailored to capture the artful aspects of fictional storytelling. Narratives were elicited with a short picture sequence of a likely life event from 293…
Descriptors: Fiction, Expressive Language, Children, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedLord, Catherine; Risi, Susan; Lambrecht, Linda; Cook, Edwin H., Jr.; Leventhal, Bennett L.; DiLavore, Pamela C.; Pickles, Andrew; Rutter, Michael – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2000
Psychometric data are presented for 223 children and adults with autism, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDDNOS), or nonspectrum diagnoses who took the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Generic. Within each module, diagnostic groups were equivalent on expressive language levels. Results indicate substantial…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Children, Classification
Peer reviewedFinn, D. M.; Fewell, R. R. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1994
This study evaluated the relationship between the play behaviors of 18 deaf blind children (aged 3-12) and their communication skills using the Play Assessment Scale and several multidomain developmental checklists. Results revealed that behaviors observed during play assessment were highly related to ratings of receptive, expressive, and…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Deaf Blind, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedSchwartz, Arthur H.; Daly, David A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1976
Discussed are the construction and scoring of elicited imitation tasks, a sentence repetition procedure which can be used to obtain information about a child's syntactic abilities. (LS)
Descriptors: Children, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Education, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedBiddle, Kathleen R.; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1996
This study used dependency analysis to document and describe the narrative discourse impairments of 10 children (mean age 12) and 10 adults (mean age 35) with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and matched controls. Individuals with TBI were significantly more disfluent than controls and their narrative performance required a significant listener…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis
Download full textStremel, Kathleen; Wilson, Rebecca M. – DB-LINK, 1995
This document consists of three separately published fact sheets (for parents and teachers of children who are deaf-blind) combined here because of the close relationship of their subject matter: (1) "Communication Interactions: It Takes Two," by Kathleen Stremel; (2) "Expressive Communication: How Children Send Their Messages to You," by Kathleen…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Blind
Stremel, Kathleen – 1996
This document consists of three separately published fact sheets combined here because of the close relationship of their subject matter. The first fact sheet, "Communication Interactions: It Takes Two" (Kathleen Stremel), defines communication; suggests ways to find opportunities for interactive communication; offers specific suggestions for…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Blind
Stremel, Kathleen; Wilson, Rebecca M. – 1998
This document consists of three separately published fact sheets combined here because of the close relationship of their subject matter. The first fact sheet, "Communication Interactions: It Takes Two" (Kathleen Stremel), defines communication; suggests ways to find opportunities for interactive communication; offers specific suggestions for…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Blind
