Final Exam module 12

Question 1

Why Language sample analysis

Answer 1

• Informal assessment of child language
• supplements/enhances formal assessment (PLS-5, CELFP2)
• provides info on (syntax, semantics, morphology, pragmatics
• used for difficult to assess clients
• more sensitive then standardized assessments

Question 2

Language sample Analysis

Answer 2

• allow naturalistic setting
• richer, more complex language ability
• children w/ language impairments show more impairment during LSA

Question 2

LSA allows for

Answer 2

• analysis of use across multiple utterances
• frequency of use (emergent or mastered skill)
• context of use (setting/genre or immediate language context)

Question 3

How to collect language sample

Answer 3

• Record the entire sample (audio or video)
• Collect enough language for 50-100 utterances (up to 200)
• Choose a natural setting
• Provide a topic (picture, play-based, silly questions, favorite
  things, etc.)
• Choose a communication partner (Parent, sibling, therapist,
  teacher, classmate/peer)

Question 4

Things to avoid in Language Sample

Answer 4

• Yes/No questions
• Questions that test knowledge
• Questions that answer themselves o - Questions that are too hard

Question 5

How to transcribe

Answer 5

• Omit first and last 10 utterances
• Transcribe each utterance on a separate line
• Transcribe both communication partners for context
• Make any pertinent notes about the transcription
• Transcribe unintelligible utterances as XXXX (these will not count)
• Number all child utterances

Question 6

Utterance

Answer 6

• A sentence is an utterance
• A command is an utterance

Question 7

Utterances

Answer 7

• Run-on sentences with AND should contain no more than one AND joining clauses.
• Sentences with more than one
  AND should be separated into additional utterances.

Question 8

MLU

Answer 8

Measure of linguistic productivity in children, calculated by dividing the total number of morphemes
by the number of utterances in a language sample.

Question 9

Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS)

Answer 9

Standardized procedure for evaluating the grammatical complexity of children’s spontaneous
speech by scoring complete sentences based on
specific grammatical rules.

Question 10

Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn)

Answer 10

Assesses the grammatical complexity of spontaneous language samples by scoring the presence of 60
different syntactic forms across four categories:

noun phrases, verb phrases, questions/negations, and sentence structures.

Question 11

Number of Different Word Roots

Answer 11

Measure of lexical diversity that counts the number of
unique word roots used in a language sample,
reflecting the range of vocabulary deployed.

Question 12

Type Token Ratio (TTR)

Answer 12

Measure of lexical diversity calculated by dividing the number of unique words (types) by the total number of words (tokens) in a language sample.

Question 13

Pragmatic Assesment

Answer 13

Evaluation of an individual’s use of language in social contexts, focusing on skills such as turn-taking, topic maintenance, and the use of nonverbal cues.

Question 14

Mean Length Utterance

Answer 14

Measure of morphological development and utterance length

Question 15

Calculating MLU

Answer 15

• Count total morphemes across all utterances
• Count total number of utterances
• Divide Total # of morphemes/Total # of utterances
• Example: 14/4 = 3.5 MLU

Question 16

Pragmatic Assessment

Answer 16

• Provides a comparison of pragmatic ability to morphosyntactic and semantic skills
• Provides information for intervention regarding skills & contexts to target

Question 17

Pragmatic Skills to Evaluate:

Answer 17

• Social/Nonsocial,
• Topic Initiation,
• Topic Appropriateness,
• Turns/Topic,
• Discourse Management,
• Contingency,
• Type of Utterance (Communicative Function)