1
Q
Language sample benefits
A
- naturalistic sample of child’s language
- help to substantiate an impairment
- help determine clinical goals
- good for kids that don’t perform well on standardized assessments
2
Q
What is a representative sample?
A
is reliable and valid
3
Q
reliability
A
the measure gives the same results time after time
4
Q
validity
A
does it test want you want it to test?
5
Q
How should we segment utterances?
A
- phonological units
- communication units (syntax)
6
Q
phonological units
A
- does the child’s intonation sound like the utterance is ending?
- pauses
- count up to 2 combined sentences then create new utterance
7
Q
communication units
A
- how salt databases are segmented
- independent clause and dependent clauses = utterance
8
Q
When is it diagnostically important to note mazes?
A
- when there is an excessive number
- long mazes
- many mazes in the same sentence
9
Q
What can you not get from language sampling?
A
- no phonological info
- pragmatics
- not norm referenced unless compared to 100 people
