A method for assessing the use of first person verb forms by preschool-aged children with SLI

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-366

  Polite, Elgustus J ^a   Leonard, Laurence B ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Child language; Language disorders; Language impairment

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948945029     PISSN: 02656590     EISSN: 14770865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265659007083640     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Bedore, L. and Leonard, L. 1998: Specific language impairment and grammatical morphology: A discriminant function analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 41, 1185-92.
2. Burgemeister, B., Blum, L. and Lorge, I.1972: Columbia Mental Maturity Scale. New York: Harcourt Brace.
3. Burns, F., Paulk, C., Seymour, H. and Pearson, B. Z. 2000: Copula/auxiliary comparisons in African American and impaired Standard American English. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
4. Cleave, P. and Rice, M. 1997: An examination of the morpheme BE in children with specific language impairment: The role of contractibility and grammatical form class. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 40, 480-92.
5. Cohen, J. 1988: Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
6. Craig, H. 1993: Social skills of children with specific language impairment. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools 24, 206-15.
7. Craig, H. and Washington, J. 1993: The access behaviours of children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 36, 322-37.
8. Fey, M. and Leonard, L. 1984: Partner age as a variable in the conversational performance of specifically language-impaired children and normal-language children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 27, 413-23.
9. Fujiki, M., Brinton, B., Isaacson, T. and Summers, C. 2001: Social behaviours of children with language impairment on the playground: A pilot study. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 32, 101-13.
10. Fujiki, M., Brinton, B., Morgan, M. and Hart, C. 1999: Withdrawn and sociable behaviour of children with language impairment. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 30, 183-95.
11. Green, L. 2002: African American English: A linguistic introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
12. Ingram, D. 1972: The acquisition of the English verbal auxiliary and copula in normal and linguistically deviant children. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 4, 79-91.
13. Johnston, J. and Kamhi, A. 1984: Syntactic and semantic aspects of the utterances of language-impaired children: The same can be less. MerrillPalmer Quarterly 30, 65-85.
14. Johnston, J. and Schery, T. 1976: The use of grammatical morphemes by children with communicative disorders. In D. Morehead and A. Morehead, editors, Normal and deficient child language. Baltimore: University Park Press, 239-58.
15. Leonard, L. 1972: What is deviant language? Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 37, 427-46.
16. Leonard, L., Deevy, P., Miller, C., Charest, M., Kurtz, R. and Rauf, L. 2003: The use of grammatical morphemes reflecting aspect and modality by children with specific language impairment. Journal of Child Language 31, 231-46.
17. Leonard, L., Eyer, J., Bedore, L. and Grela, B. 1997: Three accounts of the grammatical morpheme difficulties of English-speaking children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 40, 741-53.
18. Leonard, L., Miller, C. and Gerber, E. 1999: Grammatical morphology and the lexicon in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 42, 678-89.
19. Marchman, V., Wulfeck, B. and Ellis Weismer, S. 1999: Morphological productivity in children with normal language and SLI: A study of the English past tense. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 42, 206-19.
20. Menyuk, P. 1964: Comparison of grammar of children with functionally deviant and normal speech. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 7, 109-21.
21. Norbury, C., F., Bishop, D. V. M. and Briscoe, J. 2001: Production of English finite verb morphology: A comparison of SLI and mild-moderate hearing impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 44, 165-78.
22. Oetting, J. and Horohov, J. 1997: Past tense marking by children with and without specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 40, 62-74.
23. Oetting, J. and McDonald, J. 2001: Nonmainstream dialect use and specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 44, 207-23.
24. Redmond, S. and Rice, M. 1998: The socioemotional behaviours of children with SLI: Social adaptation or social deviance? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 41, 688-700.
25. Rice, M. 1998: In search of a grammatical marker of language impairment in children. Division One Newsletter, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 5, 3-7.
26. Rice, M., Sell, M. and Hadley, P. 1991: Social interactions of speech- and language-impaired children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 34, 1299-307.
27. Rice, M. and Wexler, K. 1996: Toward tense as a clinical marker of specific language impairment in English-speaking children. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research 39, 1239-57.
28. Rice, M. and Wexler, K. 2001: Rice/Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation.
29. Rice, M., Wexler, K. and Hershberger, S. 1998: Tense over time: The longitudinal course of tense acquisition in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 41, 1412-31.
30. Roid, G. and Miller, L. 1997: Leiter International Performance Scale - Revised. Chicago: Stoelting.
31. Theakston, A., Lieven, E., Pine, J. and Rowland, C. 2005: The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: BE and HAVE. Cognitive Linguistics 16, 247-77.
32. Tomasello, M. 2003: Constructing a language: A usage-based theory of language acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
33. Werner, E. and Kresheck, J. 1983a: Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test - II Dekalb, IL: Janelle.
34. Werner, E. and Kresheck, J. 1983b: Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test - Preschool. Dekalp, IL: Janelle.