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Direct linkHendricks, Alison Eisel; Jerard, Jillian; Guo, Ling-Yu – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Measures of grammatical accuracy are effective measures of children's language skills. However, many measures, such as percent grammatical utterances, were developed for children who speak General American English (GAE) and, therefore, may not be appropriate for students who speak other dialects. This study examines different scoring…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Grammar, Accuracy, Language Skills
Francois, Isabelle; Lapka, Stefanie; Berstein Ratner, Nan; Mills, Monique T. – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2023
Clinical Question: For young AAE speakers (P), how useful is the Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) compared with Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn) in identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in the presence of African American English (AAE)? Method: Structured Review. Study Sources: PsycInfo®, Education Source, Education Resources…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Syntax
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
Evans, Karen E.; Munson, Benjamin; Edwards, Jan – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: Some pronunciation patterns that are normal in 1 dialect might represent an error in another dialect (i.e., [ko(upsilon)l] for "cold," which is typical in African American English [AAE] but an error in many other dialects of English). This study examined whether trained speech-language pathologists and untrained listeners…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Dialects, Black Dialects, Speech Language Pathology
Hendricks, Alison Eisel; Adlof, Suzanne M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017
Purpose: We compared outcomes from 2 measures of language ability in children who displayed a range of dialect variation: 1 using features that do not contrast between mainstream American English (MAE) and nonmainstream dialects (NMAE), and 1 using contrastive features. We investigated how modified scoring procedures affected the diagnostic…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Children, Dialects, Grade 2
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
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
