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McDonald, Janet L.; Oetting, Janna B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Nonword repetition (NWR) has been proposed as a culturally and linguistically fair measure of children's language abilities that is useful for the identification of specific language impairment (SLI). However, Moyle, Heilmann, and Finneran (2014) suggested that the density of a child's nonmainstream forms also influences NWR in ways that…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Identification, Language Impairments, Black Dialects
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Oetting, Janna B.; McDonald, Janet L.; Seidel, Christy M.; Hegarty, Michael – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: The inability to accurately recall sentences has proven to be a clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI); this task yields moderate-to-high levels of sensitivity and specificity. However, it is not yet known if these results hold for speakers of dialects whose nonmainstream grammatical productions overlap with those that are…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Sentences, Speech Impairments, Language Impairments