The Reliability of Short Conversational Language Sample Measures in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.

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Title: The Reliability of Short Conversational Language Sample Measures in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.
Authors: Wilder, Amy1 amy.wilder@utah.edu, Redmond, Sean M.1
Source: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research. May2022, Vol. 65 Issue 5, p1939-1955. 17p. 5 Charts.
Subject Terms: *Conversation method (Language teaching), *Children with developmental disabilities, *Kindergarten children, *Comparative grammar, *Language acquisition, Language disorders in children, Progress, Analysis of variance, Multivariate analysis, Pearson correlation (Statistics), Cronbach's alpha, Intraclass correlation, Data analysis software
Abstract: Purpose: Language sample analysis (LSA) represents an ecologically valid method for diagnosing, identifying goals, and measuring progress in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). LSA is, however, time consuming. The purpose of this study was to determine the length of sample needed to obtain reliable LSA measures for children in kindergarten and first grade with typical language (TL) and DLD using automated analyses from the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts software. Method: Play-based conversational language samples collected on kindergarten to first-grade children with TL (n = 21) and DLD (n = 21) from a communitybased sample were analyzed. Eight LSA measures were calculated from 1-, 3-, 5-, 7-, and 10-min sample cuts and compared to 20-min samples for reliability. Results: Reliability estimates were similar for the TL and DLD groups except for errors and omissions, which showed overall higher levels of reliability in the DLD group and reached acceptable levels at 3 min. Percent grammatical utterances were reliable at 7 min in the DLD group and not reliable in shorter samples in the TL group. The subordination index was reliable at 10 min for both groups. Number of different words reached acceptable reliability at the 3-min length for the DLD group and at the 10-min length for the TL group. Utterances and words per minute were reliable at 3 min and mean length of utterance at 7 min in both groups. Conclusions: Speech-language pathologists can obtain reliable LSA measures from shorter, 7-min conversational language samples from kindergarten to firstgrade children with DLD. Shorter language samples may encourage increased use of LSA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: Purpose: Language sample analysis (LSA) represents an ecologically valid method for diagnosing, identifying goals, and measuring progress in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). LSA is, however, time consuming. The purpose of this study was to determine the length of sample needed to obtain reliable LSA measures for children in kindergarten and first grade with typical language (TL) and DLD using automated analyses from the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts software. Method: Play-based conversational language samples collected on kindergarten to first-grade children with TL (n = 21) and DLD (n = 21) from a communitybased sample were analyzed. Eight LSA measures were calculated from 1-, 3-, 5-, 7-, and 10-min sample cuts and compared to 20-min samples for reliability. Results: Reliability estimates were similar for the TL and DLD groups except for errors and omissions, which showed overall higher levels of reliability in the DLD group and reached acceptable levels at 3 min. Percent grammatical utterances were reliable at 7 min in the DLD group and not reliable in shorter samples in the TL group. The subordination index was reliable at 10 min for both groups. Number of different words reached acceptable reliability at the 3-min length for the DLD group and at the 10-min length for the TL group. Utterances and words per minute were reliable at 3 min and mean length of utterance at 7 min in both groups. Conclusions: Speech-language pathologists can obtain reliable LSA measures from shorter, 7-min conversational language samples from kindergarten to firstgrade children with DLD. Shorter language samples may encourage increased use of LSA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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