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The development and validation of the Short Language Measure (SLaM): A brief measure of general language ability for children in their first year at school

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  • Title:
    The development and validation of the Short Language Measure (SLaM): A brief measure of general language ability for children in their first year at school
  • Author: Matov, Jessica
  • Subjects: assessment ; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology ; Clinical sciences ; Cognitive and computational psychology ; language ; language assessment ; language disorder ; language screening ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine ; Linguistics ; school-aged children ; Science & Technology ; screen ; Social Sciences ; speech pathology ; speech-language therapy
  • Description: The identification of children with language difficulties relies on the referral of children to speech-language services. Yet, the referrers of young school-aged children cannot always accurately discriminate those with and without language difficulties. Consequently, a high proportion of children with language difficulties are never referred for services and many children referred for suspected language difficulties have age-appropriate communication skills. The administration of a short language measure by speech-language therapists or paraprofessionals to identify children who require further language evaluation could improve the accuracy of language service referrals. However, existing short language measures for young school-aged children lack sufficient discrimination capacity. This may be due to the inadequate development of available measures, which have omitted crucial test development steps. The aim of this project was to create a sufficiently accurate, valid and reliable short language measure for children in their first year at school by applying stringent test development procedures. Source: TROVE
  • Creation Date: 2018
  • Language: English
  • Source: Trove Australian Thesis (Full Text Open Access)
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