Identifying language comprehension impairment in preschool children

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-65

  Skarakis Doyle, Elizabeth ^a   Dempsey, Lynn ^a,b   Lee, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comprehension impairment; Discourse comprehension; Preschool children; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 38949177753     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2008/006)     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. American Psychological Association. (1985). Standards for educational and psychological testing. Washington, DC: Author.
2. Beitchman, J. H., Nair, R., Clegg, M., & Patel, P. G. (1986). Prevalence of speech and language disorders in 5-year-old kindergarten children in the Ottawa-Carlton region. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 51, 98-110.
3. Bishop, D. V. M. (1997). Uncommon understanding: Development and disorders of language comprehension in children. East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
4. Bishop, D. V. M., & Edmundson, A. (1987a). Language impaired 4-year olds: Distinguishing transient from persistent impairment. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 52, 156-173.
5. Bishop, D. V. M., & Edmundson, A. (1987b). Specific language impairment as a maturational lag: Evidence from longitudinal data on language and motor development. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 29, 442-459.
6. Carrow-Woolfolk, E. (1999). Test of Auditory Comprehension of Language - III. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.
7. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Earlbaum.
8. Dempsey, L., Jacques, J., Skarakis-Doyle, E., & Lee, C. (2002, November). The relationship between preschoolers' comprehension monitoring ability and their knowledge of truth conditions. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.
9. Dempsey, L., & Skarakis-Doyle, E. (2001). The validity of the joint story retell as a measure of young children's comprehension of familiar stories. Journal of Speech Pathology and Audiology, 25, 201-211.
10. Dempsey, L., Skarakis-Doyle, E., & Lockwood, S. (2000, November). Assessing preschoolers' discourse comprehension: The reliability of JSR. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, D.C.
11. Dickinson, D. K., & Smith, M. W. (1994). Long-term effects of preschool teachers book-readings on low-income children's vocabulary and story comprehension. Reading Research Quarterly, 29(2), 104-122.
12. Dockrell, J., & Lindsay, G. (1998). The ways in which speech and language difficulties impact on children's access to curriculum. Child Language and Teaching Therapy, 14, 117-123.
13. Dollaghan, C., & Campbell, T. (1998). Nonword repetition and child language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 41, 1136-1146.
14. Dunn, L. M., & Dunn, L. M. (1997). Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (3rd ed.). Circle Pines, MN: AGS.
15. Fagan, J. F., Singer, L. T., Montie, J. E., & Shepard, P. A. (1986). Selective screening device for the early detection of normal or delayed cognitive development in infants at risk for later mental retardation. Pediatrics, 78, 1021-1026.
16. Fenson, L., Bates, E., Dale, P., Goodman, J., Reznick, J. S., & Thal, D. (2000). Measuring variabilitiy in early child language: Don't shoot the messenger. Child Development, 71, 323-328.
17. Fenson, L., Marchman, V. A., Thai, D. J., Dale, P. S., Reznick, J. S., & Bates, E. (2007). MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories: User guide and technical manual (2nd ed.). Baltimore: Brookes.
18. Fernald, A. (2002). Understanding understanding: Historical origins of current questions about the early development of receptive language competence. In W. H. Hartup & R. A. Weinberg (Vol. Eds.), Child psychology in retrospect and prospect: In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the institute of child development. Vol 32, The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (pp. 103-129). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
19. Flood, K. (1994). Prevalence rate of speech and language disorders in the preschool population in London, Ontario. Unpublished master of clinical science research thesis, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
20. Johnson, C. J., Beitchman, J. H., Young, A., Escobar, M., Atkinson, L., Wilson, B., et al. (1999). Fourteen-year follow-up of children with and without speech/language impairments: Speech/language stability and out-comes. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42, 744-760.
21. Lahey, M. (1988). Language disorders and language development. New York: MacMillan.
22. McCarthy, D. (1972). McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities. New York: The Psychological Corporation.
23. Messick, S. (1995). Validity of psychological assessment: Validation of inferences from person's responses and performances as scientific inquiry into score meaning. In A. E. Kazdan (Ed.), Methodological issues and strategies in clinical research (2nd ed., pp. 241-260). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
24. Metcalfe, J. (1994). A computational modeling approach to novelty monitoring, metacognition, and frontal lobe dysfunction. In J. M. A. P. Shimamura (Ed.), Metacognition: Knowing about knowing (pp. 137-156). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
25. Miller, C. A., Kail, R., Leonard, L., & Tomblin, J. B. (2001). Speed of processing in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 416-433.
26. Miller, J. F., & Paul, R. (1995). The clinical assessment of language comprehension. Baltimore: Brookes.
27. Milosky, L., & Skarakis-Doyle, E. (2007). What else about comprehension: Examining young children's discourse comprehension abilities. In R. Paul (Ed.), Language disorders from a developmental perspective: Essays in honor of Robin S. Chapman (pp. 377-404). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
28. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. (1995). National strategic research plan for language and language impairments, balance and balance disorders, and voice and voice disorders (NIH Publication No. 97-3217). Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
29. Nelson, K. (1996). Event knowledge and cognitive development. In K. Nelson (Ed.), Event representation: Structure and function in development (pp. 1-20). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
30. Nelson, K., & Gruendel, J. (1986). Children's scripts. In K. Nelson (Ed.), Event representation: Structure and function in development (pp. 21-46). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
31. Olswang, L., Rodriguez, B., & Timler, G. (1998). Recommending intervention for toddlers with specific language learning difficulties: We may not have all the answers, be we know a lot. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 7, 23-32.
32. Paris, A. H., & Paris, S. G. (2003). Assessing narrative comprehension in young children. Reading Research Quarterly, 38(1), 36-76.
33. Pearson, P. D. (2005). Foreword. In S. G. Paris & S. A. Stahl (Eds.), Children's reading comprehension and assessment (pp. xi-xiv). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
34. Plante, E., & Vance, R. (1994). Selection of preschool language tests: A data-based approach. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 25, 15-24.
35. Rutter, M., & Mawhood, L. (1991). The long-term psycho-social sequelae of specific developmental disorders of speech and language. In M. Rutter & P. Casaer (Eds.), Biological risk factors for psychosocial disorders (pp. 233-259). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
36. Silva, P. A. (1980). The prevalence, stability and significance of developmental language delay in preschool children. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 22, 768-777.
37. Silva, P. A., McGee, R., & Williams, S. M. (1983). Developmental language delay from three to seven years and its significance for low intelligence and reading difficulties at age seven. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 25, 783-793.
38. Silva, P. A., Williams, S. M., & McGee, R. (1987). A longitudinal study of children with developmental language delays at age three: Later intelligence, reading and behavior problems. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 29, 630-640.
39. Skarakis-Doyle, E. (2002). Young children's detection of violations in familiar stories and emerging comprehension monitoring. Discourse Processes, 33(2), 175-197.
40. Skarakis-Doyle, E., & Dempsey, L. (2007). The detection and monitoring of comprehension errors by children with language impairment. Manuscript submitted for publication.
41. Skarakis-Doyle, E., Dempsey, L., & Lee, C. (2002, July). The emergence of narrative story comprehension in young children: An examination of underlying constructs. Poster session presented to the joint conference of the International Congress for the Study of Child Language and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
42. Skarakis-Doyle, E., & Milosky, L. (1999, June). Assessing discourse representations in preschool children: Elements of a global fast map. Poster session presented at the Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
43. Skarakis-Doyle, E., & Wootton, S. (1995). An investigation of children with developmental language impairment's ability to use everyday knowledge in comprehension. In D. MacLaughlin & S. McEwen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (Vol. 2, pp. 599-610). Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
44. Spaulding, T. J., Plante, E., & Farinella, K. (2006). Eligibility criteria for language impairment: Is the low end of normal always appropriate? Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 37, 61-72.
45. Stothard, S. E., Snowling, M. J., Bishop, D. V. M., Chipchase, B. B., & Kaplan, C. A. (1998). Language-impaired preschoolers: A follow-up into adolescence. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 41, 407-418.
46. Thal, D. (1991). Language and cognition in normal and late-talking toddlers. Topics in Language Disorders, 11, 33-42.
47. Thai, D., & Katich, J. (1996). Predicaments in early identification of specific language impairment: Does the early bird always catch the worm? In K. Cole, P. Dale, & D. Thal (Eds.), Assessment of communication and language (pp. 1-28). Baltimore: Brookes.
48. Thompson, L. A., Fagan, J. F., & Fulker, D. W. (1991). Longitudinal prediction of specific cognitive abilities from infant novelty preference. Child Development, 62, 530-538.
49. Tomblin, J. B., Freese, P. R., & Records, N. L. (1992). Diagnosing specific language impairment in adults for the purpose of pedigree analysis. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 35, 832-843.
50. Tomblin, J. B., Records, N. L., Buckwalter, P., Zhang, X., Smith, E., & O'Brien, M. (1997). Prevalence of specific language impairment in kindergarten children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40, 1245-1260.
51. Warr-Leeper, G., Smith, T., & Dunn, C. (2001). Report to the Thames Valley Region Ontario Preschool Speech and Language Initiative (No. Document 196-19-01). London, Ontario: Thames Valley Regional Health District Council.