This investigation compares the performances of 24 African American children, diagnosed
as language impaired (LI) and receiving school-based language therapy, to 2 groups of …

The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) is a screening questionnaire that focuses on parents'
perceptions of children's speech in different contexts. Originally developed in English, it has …

Working with multilingual children requires knowledge of their home/heritage culture and
language (s), norms for development of these languages in monolingual and multilingual …

This study investigated language data collected in 1978-1979 from ninety-six 3-to 5-year-old
children in four different non-Western cultures: Garifuna in Belize, Logoli in Kenya, Newars …

In situations of language endangerment, the ability to understand a language tends to
persevere longer than the ability to speak it. As a result, the possibility of language revival …

Many researchers, clinicians, and educators are concerned about the sta-tus of African
American children, especially as these youngsters enter and participate in formal education …

This article explores misunderstandings identified in an instructional context where oral
communication is the primary form of communication and focuses on the teacher as sender …

In today's global village, successful communication depends on “knowing how, when, and
why to say what to whom.” Consequently, in the foreign language classroom, developing the …

I have been tasked to examine the issue of assessment in Arabic, defined as being the
measurement of Arabic language use in social contexts. The editors have noted certain …

This paper describes the way in which constructive alignment is being implemented in the
Speech-language Pathology (SLP) programme at a South African university. We focus on …