Narrative quality measures in school-age children referred for language assessment.
Purpose: Measures of narrative quality hold promise for clinical language assessment. However, more information is needed on the validity of such measures within clinical populations. This study examined aspects of validity for two clinically-available narrative quality measures, the Narrative Scori...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 354 - 364 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2016
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