The diagnostic and predictive validity of the Renfrew Bus Story

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 390-399

  Pankratz, Mary E ^a   Vance, Elena Plante Rebecca ^a   Insalaco, Deborah M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Evidence based practice; Narrative language; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CUES; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NARRATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 35648965611     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2007/040)     Document Type: Article

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