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

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 …

Purpose: Mean length of utterance (MLU) is one of the most widely reported measures of
syntactic development in the developmental literature, but its responsiveness in young …

Purpose This study examined the accuracy and potential clinical utility of two expedited
transcription methods for narrative language samples elicited from school-age children (7; 5 …

Oral storytelling skills are a complex oral discourse competency with implications for
children's academic and social well‐being, yet few studies have investigated the …

Purpose: Language sample analysis is widely regarded as the gold standard of language
assessment. However, the uncertainty regarding the optimal length of sample and 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 …

Purpose: Typically developing (TD) bilingual children usually produce narratives with
preserved macrostructure (ie, narrative scheme) but with impaired microstructure (ie …

Purpose: This study examines the development of narrative microstructure elements of
productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in the oral story production of …