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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
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Kenworthy, Lauren; Wallace, Gregory L.; Powell, Kelly; Anselmo, Cheryl; Martin, Alex; Black, David O. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
Language ability is a known predictor of outcome in children with autism but plays a more controversial role for higher functioning children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We studied the relationship between early language milestones and later structural language, adaptive functioning and autism symptoms in a sample of 76 children (mean age…
Descriptors: Autism, Language Aptitude, Communication Skills, Nonverbal Ability
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Mainela-Arnold, Elina; Evans, Julia L.; Alibali, Martha W. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: The authors investigated mental representations of Piagetian conservation tasks in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing peers. Children with SLI have normal nonverbal intelligence; however, they exhibit difficulties in Piagetian conservation tasks. The authors tested the hypothesis that conservation…
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Memory, Language Skills, Age