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Pena, Elizabeth D.; Quinn, Rosemary – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1997
Two studies compared the performance of Puerto Rican and African American Head Start children (total n=134) on familiar (description) and unfamiliar (one word labeling) test tasks. Results indicated children performed better on the familiar test task, which was also more sensitive in differentiating typically developing children from those with…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disability Identification, Familiarity, Language Impairments