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Diagnostic Accuracy of Speech-Language Tests
Interpreting Sensitivity and Specificity As speech-language pathologists we often use speech and language tests as diagnostic indicators for whether someone has a speech or language disorder, and we need to consider is the diagnostic accuracy of these tools. In other...
Receptive Language Goals That Pack A Punch
Have you ever thought about why we test for a receptive and expressive language disorder pretty evenly but favor expressive language in our therapy? And how about our goals? Even when a child has a mixed receptive expressive language disorder, why do we focus so...
7 Steps for Doing a Speech-Language Evaluation with an Interpreter
1: Get Detailed Language History The first step in doing a speech-language evaluation with an interpreter for a student or client who speaks a language you don’t speak is to gather as much information as you can about the language they speak. You want to know: Where...
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4 Bilingual Articulation Evaluation Case Studies Without Standardized Test Scores
Roll up your sleeves! This essay is heavy on visuals and short on words. We are going to show the testing behind four fundamentally different bilingual articulation evaluations that we wrote up without using standardized scores. We have lots and lots of case studies...
The 3 Prevailing Speech Sound Disorders Research Models
Have you ever thought about how unbalanced our understanding of language disorders is compared to speech sound disorders? On the language side we are really comfortable with some very technical words like morphology, syntax, and pragmatic use. But what has speech...
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Wow, I love this post! Thank you for illuminating the special nature of being able to enter a person’s home to work with their child.
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This was such a concrete explanation of how important language specific constraints are…I’m grateful for this excellent resource, and will be sharing it with my grad school peers.
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Thank you for this thought provoking read! As someone who has been an SLP for over 40 years, I have to agree with the majority of what you reported. I look forward to reviewing the supporting studies in the future!
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