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Developing A School-Age Language Screening For Sli, Logan Douglass
Developing A School-Age Language Screening For Sli, Logan Douglass
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Purpose: This study explored past tense marking in oral reading as a clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI). A School-Age Language Screening Assessment (SALSA) was evaluated to determine whether it can be used to improve the identification of school-age children with SLI. The first aim was to calculate overall accuracy with children with TL and SLI on reading regular and irregular past tense verbs in oral reading of connected text. The second aim was to determine the overall diagnostic accuracy of SALSA.
Method: 96 children with TL and 3 children with SLI (N = 99) in grades 2-4 were …