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Munson, Benjamin; Bjorum, Elissa M.; Windsor, Jennifer – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2003
This study examined whether accuracy in producing linguistic stress reliably distinguished between five children with suspected developmental apraxia of speech (sDAS) and five children with phonological disorder (PD). No group differences in the production of stress were found; however, listeners judged that nonword repetitions of the children…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Speech Communication
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Wilcox, Lydia D.; Anderson, Raquel T. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1998
This study evaluated an experimental articulation testing instrument for differentiating child speakers (N=21, ages 5:0 to 6:6) of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) with atypical and typical phonologies. Significant group differences were observed, suggesting that the measure can differentiate typical and atypical development in this…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Children, Clinical Diagnosis
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Rice, Mabel L.; Wexler, Kenneth – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
Comparison of the speech of 37 preschool children with speech-language impairment (SLI), 40 language-matched children, and 45 age-matched children found that errors in a set of morphemes marking tense characterized the SLI children. Evidence supporting the use of these morphemes as clinical markers for SLI is offered. (DB)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Evaluation Methods, Morphemes
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Thoonen, G.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
This study attempted to quantify diagnostic characteristics related to consonant production of developmental verbal dyspraxia (DVD) in 11 Dutch children (ages 6 and 7). The study was able to quantify diagnostic characteristics but found very few qualitative differences in error patterns between children with DVD and 11 age-matched children with…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Consonants, Error Analysis (Language), Expressive Language