Personal narratives make up more than half of children's conversations. The ability to share
personal narratives helps build and maintain friendships, promotes physical and emotional …

Purpose: Language sampling is a critical component of language assessments. However,
there are many ways to elicit language samples that likely impact the results. The purpose of …

Studies examining productive syntax have used varying elicitation methods and have
tended to focus on either young children or adolescents/adults, so we lack an account of …

Oral narrative abilities are an important measure of children's language competency and
have predictive value for children's later academic performance. Research and development …

Introduction: Personal narratives are monological stories based on a personal experience
that help children explain and understand their emotional states, as well as process positive …

Purpose: Syntax has been called the structural foundation of language, as its development
allows for more efficient and effective communication. Complex syntax production is known …

Over-identification of language disorder among bilingual children with typical development
(TD) is a risk factor in assessment. One strategy for improving assessment accuracy with …

Purpose This study described the oral narrative comprehension and production skills of
verbal preschool-age children on the autism spectrum and investigated correlations …

Purpose We examined four measures of lexical diversity in the narratives of children with
typical language development (TLD) and developmental language disorder (DLD) that …

The third edition of Language Sampling With Children and Adolescents: Implications for
Intervention provides guidelines for analyzing spoken and written language production in …