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LANGUAGE SAMPLING
A language sample is:**
• A collection of a child’s utterances
• Experts recommend that you get 100-200 utterances
When you collect a language sample…
Language samples (LSs)
When gathering a language sample, we want to:
We also want to:
Ideally…
Research shows that:
Use a variety of materials!**
• You can use toys, books, games
• You can also ask about topics the child is interested in
Youtube
• Language sample (3 minutes)
• By lilcook03
• What is the SLP doing right?
Interesting topics for children:
To analyze syntactic skills, evaluate the child’s use of:
Does the child use appropriately long and complex sentences?**
• Expressive Language Disorder - Sariah age 10
• Notice how short and simple her sentences are for her age
To analyze morphological skills…**
• Evoke the possessive morpheme by using activities and pictures and asking questions such as “Whose is this?”
• Use pictures/activities to assess use of present progressive –ing
To further analyze morphological skills:**
• Use pictures to assess a child’s production of regular and irregular plural nouns
To further analyze morphological skills…**
• Assess past-tense constructions by telling a story and asking the child to re-tell the story
To assess semantic skills…
In older students, indicators of language impairment include:
To assess pragmatic skills, look for…
MLU Norms** (PRAXIS!) • 18-24 mos. MLU = 1.5 to 2.0
• 2-2 ½ yrs. MLU = 2.0-2.5
• 2 ½ to 3 yrs. MLU = 2.5-3.0
• 3-4 yrs. MLU = 3.0-4.0
• 4-5 yrs. MLU = 4.5+
• 5-6 yrs. MLU= 8+ words, compound and complex sentences