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An Equation for Assessing Language Development
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No AccessJournal of Speech and Hearing ResearchResearch Article1 Mar 1967An Equation for Assessing Language Development Thomas H. Shriner and Dorothy Sherman Thomas H. Shriner University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Google Scholar More articles by this author and Dorothy Sherman University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.1001.41 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Samples of language from the speech of 200 children, ranging in age from two years and six months to twelve years, were used to obtain an equation for predicting the degree of language development as measured by psychological scale values. Predictors retained in the final equation are the mean of the five longest responses, the number of one-word responses, the number of different words, and the structural complexity score. A multiple-regression procedure yielded a final R of 0.85. Although deleted from the final equation, the best single predictor is the mean length of response. The Standard deviation of response length was found to have no systematic relationship to psychological scale values of language development. Additional Resources FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited By The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal37:4 (348-348)1 Jun 2000Speech and Language Issues in the Cleft Palate Population: The State of the ArtDavid P. Kuehn and Karlind T. Moller The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal37:4 (1-35)1 Jul 2000Speech and Language Issues in the Cleft Palate Population: The State of the ArtDavid P. Kuehn and Karlind T. Moller William Fraser (1981) Clinical Presentations of Retarded Language Communicating with Normal and Retarded Children10.1016/B978-0-7236-0572-0.50011-3 Journal of Communication Disorders12:1 (35-44)1 Feb 1979Use of mean morphological units to assess language developmentThomas L. Layton and Sheldon L. Stick Contemporary Educational Psychology1:4 (319-328)1 Oct 1976Language development in Down's Syndrome retardates: A factorial studyDavid Evans International Journal of Nursing Studies11:2 (119-126)1 Jul 1974The stimulation of verbal skills in the high-grade mentally retarded patient; a nurse-administered treatment procedureXenia Paton and Boris Petrusev Journal of Learning Disabilities6:4 (16-19)1 Apr 1973The Use of Language Samples in a Clinical SettingDorothy Tyack Journal of Communication Disorders2:3 (252-263)1 Aug 1969A study of the effects of training in visual literacy on verbal language behaviorTwila E. Strandberg and Jerry Griffith Journal of Communication Disorders2:3 (241-251)1 Aug 1969Temporal reliability of length-complexity indexMargaret C. Barlow and L.E. Miner Journal of Communication Disorders2:3 (224-240)1 Aug 1969Scoring procedures for the length-complexity index: A preliminary reportL.E. Miner Volume 10Issue 1March 1967Pages: 41-48 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library History Published in issue: Mar 1, 1967 Metrics Topicsasha-topicsasha-article-typesCopyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1967 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPDF DownloadLoading ...