Children's story retelling under different modality and task conditions: Implications for standardizing language sampling procedures

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-72

  Gazella, Jamie ^b   Stockman, Ida J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caucasian preschool males; Direct questioning tasks; Language sampling; Presentation modalities; Story retelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; STANDARDIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0242332027     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2003/053)     Document Type: Article

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