One essential component of clinical practice in the field of speech-language pathology is
eliciting language to assess an individual's communication abilities. Language becomes …

Purpose: Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) play an integral role in identification and
treatment of developmental language disorders (DLD). Best practices include the use of …

The ultimate aim of intervention for children with language impairment is an improvement in
their functional language skills. Baseline and outcome measurement of this is often …

Purpose The purpose of this study was twofold:(a) to determine the diagnostic accuracy of
the four Sampling Utterances and Grammatical Analysis Revised (SUGAR) metrics …

Purpose: Language sample analysis (LSA) represents an ecologically valid method for
diagnosing, identifying goals, and measuring progress in children with developmental …

Background The critical role of phonetic transcription in the assessment, diagnosis and
management of speech disorders is well established and thus pre‐registration degrees …

This study evaluated a computer-based approach to transcription in the clinical setting:
transcription done in real time. Real-time transcription entails orthographically transcribing …

Purpose This tutorial discusses the importance of language sample analysis and how
Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) software can be used to simplify the …

Purpose Research demonstrates that many speech-language pathologists (SLPs) do not
routinely include language sample analysis (LSA) in their clinical practice because LSA has …

Abstract Language sample analysis (LSA) has been called the “gold standard” for clinical
language assessment with children learning more than one language. The research …