The paper examines the need to analyze free expression as part of an overall expressive language evaluation in school aged children. Seven language characteristics are identified which may help in recognizing disorders of self-expression. (Author/PHR)

The validity of the Fundacion MacArthur Inventaria de Habilidades Communicativas: Palabras y Enuciados was examined with twenty 20- and nineteen 28-month-old, typically developing, monolingual, Spanish-speaking children in Mexico. Results indicated validity for assessing expressive vocabulary in 20-month-olds and expressive vocabulary and grammar…

Designed to measure children's receptive and expressive language competence, this 57-item instrument inventories children's performance in the following eight language subareas: motor functions, memory functions, visual functions, tactile-kinesthetic functions, vocal functions, auditory functions, following directions, and language concepts. (This…

Intended for teachers of elementary age hearing impaired students, the article describes the Test of Receptive Language Ability and the Test of Expressive Language Ability. (SBH)

A project designed to study the feasibility of utilizing the eight components of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Communication Performance Profile for evaluating the receptive and expressive communication skills of deaf secondary level students was conducted on 420 students (ages 11 to 21) at two residential schools for the deaf.…

Nonfluent and fluent dysphasic subjects (N=22) and nondysphasic subjects (N=20) were assessed on tasks of word fluency and picture-naming. Results showed that clinical language examinations should utilize contexts other than naming tasks for detecting the presence of word retrieval problems and for differentiating the two polar types of dysphasia.…

A standardization sample for the Boston Naming Test was established. Means, standard deviations, and ranges of performance in accuracy and latency were established for age and grade for 357 kindergarten through grade six subjects. It was concluded that the test is an efficient and valid screening measure of students' word finding skills.…

Some new approaches to the assessment and treatment of language handicaps suggest the need to examine relationships between verbal creativity and language performance. Data were collected from 40 normally developing white fourth, fifth, and sixth grade children, drawn from both urban and rural communities and from a middle socioeconomic level.…

Discussed are the construction and scoring of elicited imitation tasks, a sentence repetition procedure which can be used to obtain information about a child's syntactic abilities. (LS)

Tests of two coding processes and language measures were administered to 100 institutionalized moderately retarded adults (mean age 24). Results of correlational analyses showed association between use and understanding of language and successive processing, however, analysis of variance indicated both coding dimensions important for establishing…

Results indicated that Ss were able to accurately repeat sentences which they did not understand as long as imitation was immediate. Delaying imitation three seconds adversely affected imitation of noncomprehended sentences while having no significant effect on comprehended sentences. (Author)

Language comprehension performance on the Test of Auditory Comprehension of Language (TACL) was investigated using three modes of test administration with 24 four-year-old children representing various categories of cognitive tempo. Results indicated that all Ss had similar expressive language abilities. (Author/SB)