Oromotor functioning plays a foundational role in spoken communication and feeding, two
areas of significant difficulty for many autistic individuals. However, despite years of research …

Purpose: This systematic review provides a comprehensive summary of the diagnostic
accuracy of English language sample analysis (LSA) measures for the identification of …

Background Type-Token Ratio (TTR), given its relatively simple hand computation, is one of
the few LSA measures calculated by clinicians in everyday practice. However, it has …

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 …

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 …

This study probed for structural language impairment using behavioral and functional
neuroimaging methods in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and those …

Introduction: This small-scale study explored the feasibility of the Global TALES protocol in
eliciting personal narratives in typically developing monolingual Irish children, using the …

Purpose: Prior work has identified weaknesses in commonly used indices of lexical diversity
in spoken language samples, such as type–token ratio (TTR) due to sample size and …

Background. Virtually all children with 22q11. 2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11DS) experience
language difficulties, next to other physical and psychological problems. However, the …

Purpose: Picture–word writing curriculum-based measures (PW CBM-Ws) are technically
sound, formative measures of descriptive, sentence-level writing but cannot estimate …