Purpose: This tutorial guides speech-language pathologists (SLPs) through the research
base for expository intervention and evidence-based decision making for clinical …

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: 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 …

Language sampling (LS) is a procedure based on the collection and transcription of a true
language sample; thus, it provides the means for analysis of language production in a …

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 …

Purpose: Language sample analysis (LSA) represents an ecologically valid method for
diagnosing, identifying goals, and measuring progress in children with developmental …

Purpose: Federal and state laws require schools to be accountable for student performance
on measures of academic achievement in literacy, mathematics, and science skills; monitor …

Purpose: The purpose of this case series was to demonstrate a community-based
sociolinguistic approach to language sample analysis (LSA) for the evaluation of Spanish …

Communicative competence for people who use augmentative and alternative
communication consists of four interrelated domains: linguistic, strategic, social, and …

Purpose: This exploratory study sought to establish the psychometric stability of a dynamic
norming system using the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) databases …