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LANGUAGE SAMPLING

LANGUAGE SAMPLING. A language sample is:**. A collection of a child’s utterances Experts recommend that you get 100-200 utterances. When you collect a language sample…. Paul & Norbury, 2012:. Haynes & Pindzola 2012:. Haynes & Pindzola, 2012:. Ideally…. Owens 2014 states that:.

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LANGUAGE SAMPLING

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  1. LANGUAGE SAMPLING

  2. A language sample is:** • A collection of a child’s utterances • Experts recommend that you get 100-200 utterances

  3. When you collect a language sample…

  4. Paul & Norbury, 2012:

  5. Haynes & Pindzola 2012:

  6. Haynes & Pindzola, 2012:

  7. Ideally…

  8. Owens 2014 states that:

  9. According to Owens 2014:

  10. Use a variety of materials!** • You can use toys, books, games • You can also ask about topics the child is interested in

  11. Youtube • Language sample • By lilcook03

  12. Interesting topics for children:

  13. To analyze syntactic skills, evaluate the child’s use of:

  14. Does the child use appropriately long and complex sentences? • Expressive Language Disorder - Sariah age 10 Youtube • Notice how short and simple her sentences are for her age

  15. To analyze morphological skills…** • Evoke the possessive morpheme by using activities and pictures and asking questions such as “Whose is this?” • Use pictures/activities to assess use of present progressive –ing

  16. To further analyze morphological skills:** • Use pictures to assess a child’s production of regular and irregular plural nouns

  17. To further analyze morphological skills…** • Assess past-tense constructions by telling a story and asking the child to re-tell the story

  18. To assess semantic skills…

  19. Haynes & Pindzola (2012)—in older students:

  20. To assess pragmatic skills, look for…

  21. Rice et al., April 2010, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research “Mean length of utterance levels for children 3-9 years with and without language impairments”** • We calculate mean length of utterance, or MLU • MLU refers to the average number of morphemes in children’s utterances

  22. Rice et al. 2010 state that:

  23. MLU Norms** (PRAXIS!) • 18-24 mos. MLU = 1.5 to 2.0 • 2-2 ½ yrs. MLU = 2.0-2.5 • 2 ½ to 3 yrs. MLU = 2.5-3.0 • 3-4 yrs. MLU = 3.0-4.0 • 4-5 yrs. MLU = 4.5+ • 5-6 yrs. MLU= 8+ words, compound and complex sentences

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