” said Kucker, SMU assistant professor of psychology. “When children are given assessments to evaluate their language abilities, clinicians and teachers should take into account the child’s shyness level, perhaps using tasks that are less burdensome for them, such as pointing...
This article reports the results of speech and language assessments for a group of 28 children aged 12 to 24 months who were newly adopted from Eastern Europe. Most of the children did well, with average English language standard scores within normal limits on the Communication and Symbolic ...
Many of these assessments are designed and standardized for use with monolingual Standard English-speaking children. It is thus recommended that these assessments should only be used with the populations they were designed for; if not test bias might result. However, such tests are still selected ...
Together, the research studies identified several assessment tools/approaches with high diagnostic accuracy including standardized assessments specifically designed for multilingual children, language sampling, dynamic assessment, alternative assessments such as non-word repetition and statistical word learning, ...
Conclusions : The finding supports continued investigation of targeted linguistic tasks in children following concussion, particularly in the domains of semantic and syntactic access and verbal working memory. Future work developing brief language assessments specifically targeting children in this age range ...
The inappropriateness of current standardized language assessments for Indigenous children and the need for further research to guide appropriate assessment are discussed. 展开 关键词: Diagnosis language assessment school-aged children dialect Aboriginal English ...
Assessments for G5 in Chinese language learning are not restricted to paper-based or computer-based tests. It could be so much more fun! Guess what our 5th graders are doing to pass a test? Making a cartoon book featuring different stages of live for human beings!Based on their UOI learni...
The use of literal prompts (LPs) and inferential prompts (IPs) in shared book reading (SBR) facilitates children’s use of language and promotes their thinking and understanding about the stories discussed and beyond. Furthermore, SBR provides a platform for mildly autistic children to have multip...
Marked differences appeared with regard to the manner in which assessments took place and how the results were made available to the public.doi:10.1080/07908310508668739McEachron, Gaila School of Education, The College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, Virginia, 23187-8795, ...
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