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Potratz, Jill R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Mean length of utterance (MLU) is one of the most widely reported measures of syntactic development in the developmental literature, but its responsiveness in young school-age children's language has been questioned, and it has been shown to correlate with nonsyntactic measures. This study tested the extent to which MLU shows measurement…
Descriptors: Measurement, Speech, Speech Impairments, Language Impairments
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Schiller, Isabel S.; Morsomme, Dominique; Kob, Malte; Remacle, Angélique – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Our aim was to investigate isolated and combined effects of speech-shaped noise (SSN) and a speaker's impaired voice quality on spoken language processing in first-grade children. Method: In individual examinations, 53 typically developing children aged 5-6 years performed a speech perception task (phoneme discrimination) and a listening…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech, Language Processing, Elementary School Students
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Rvachew, Susan – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: To examine the relationship between phonological processing skills prior to kindergarten entry and reading skills at the end of 1st grade, in children with speech sound disorders (SSD). Method: The participants were 17 children with SSD and poor phonological processing skills (SSD-low PP), 16 children with SSD and good phonological…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Preschool Children, Reading Skills, Phonological Awareness