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Specific Language Impairment in African American English and Southern White English: Measures of Tense and Agreement with Dialect-Informed Probes and Strategic Scoring
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Oetting, Janna B.; Berry, Jessica R.; Gregory, Kyomi D.; Rivière, Andrew M.; McDonald, Janet – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: In African American English and Southern White English, we examined whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) overtly mark tense and agreement structures at lower percentages than typically developing (TD) controls, while also examining the effects of dialect, structure, and scoring approach. Method: One hundred six…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Whites, Scoring, Language Impairments
Marking of Tense and Agreement in Language Samples by Children with and without Specific Language Impairment in African American English and Southern White English: Evaluation of Scoring Approaches and Cut Scores across Structures
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Oetting, Janna B.; Rivière, Andrew M.; Berry, Jessica R.; Gregory, Kyomi D.; Villa, Tina M.; McDonald, Janet – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: As follow-up to a previous study of probes, we evaluated the marking of tense and agreement (T/A) in language samples by children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing controls in African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) while also examining the clinical utility of different scoring…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Grammar, Dialects, African Americans
Classification Accuracy of Teacher Ratings When Screening Nonmainstream English-Speaking Kindergartners for Language Impairment in the Rural South
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Gregory, Kyomi D.; Oetting, Janna B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: We compared teacher ratings as measured by the Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy (TROLL; Dickinson, McCabe, & Sprague, 2001, 2003) and Children's Communication Checklist-Second Edition (CCC-2; Bishop, 2006) to 2 established screeners, the Part II of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test (DELV-ST-II;…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Oral Language, Literacy, Communication Skills