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

In this article, we review the advantages of language sample analysis (LSA) and explain
how clinicians can make the process of LSA faster, easier, more accurate, and more …

Purpose This article examines use of language sample analysis (LSA) by school-based
speech-language pathologists (SLPs), including characteristics of language samples …

Purpose Language sample analysis is considered by many to be the gold standard for
documenting children's oral language skills. One limitation, however, is the time required for …

Purpose: Most speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working with children with
developmental language disorder (DLD) do not perform language sample analysis (LSA) on …

Prior to Brown's (1973) introduction of mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLUm),
child language researchers and speech-language pathologists used mean length of …

James scored 28 on the Auditory Comprehension Subtest of the Preschool Language Scale.
This corresponds to a standard score of 90, which is less than 1 SD below the mean, and is …

The identification of linguistic vulnerability in school-age students is likely to require
collecting and analyzing samples of text-level discourse. Text-level discourse produced as …

Conversational indices of language impairment were used to investigate similarities and
differences among children with Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), children …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to document whether mean length of utterance
(MLUS), total number of words (TNW), clauses per sentence (CPS), and/or words per …