Purpose: Analysis of narrative language samples is a recommended clinical practice in the
assessment of children's language skills, but we know little about how results from such …

Purpose Both narrative language samples and norm-referenced language tests can be
important components of language assessment for school-age children. The present study …

This project aimed to describe selected micro structural aspects of written narratives of
school age children and examine the relationship between narrative measures and …

Purpose This study examined whether the Predictive Early Assessment of Reading and
Language (PEARL), a dynamic assessment of narratives that measures language …

Assessment of language is a complicated process best served by information from a variety
of different sources. Traditionally, standardized tests designed to capture information about a …

Analysis of children's spoken narratives represents a potentially informative approach to
language assessment within early childhood settings. Yet, narrative assessment is not …

We examined the concurrent relationship between narrative skills (the Renfrew Bus Story
Test) and core language measures (vocabulary, grammar and verbal memory) at age 4 and …

Purpose This feasibility study examines the convergent and divergent validity of the
Grammaticality and Utterance Length Instrument (GLi), a tool designed to assess the …

Purpose Narrative skill represents a higher-level linguistic skill that shows incremental
development in the preschool years. During these years, there are considerable individual …

Purpose: Narrative assessment is one potentially underutilized and inconsistent method
speech-language pathologists may use when considering a diagnosis of developmental …