Differentiating School-Aged Children With and Without Language Impairment Using Tense and Grammaticality Measures From a Narrative Task.
Purpose: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of the finite verb morphology composite (FVMC), number of errors per C-unit (Errors/CU), and percent grammatical C-units (PGCUs) in differentiating school-aged children with language impairment (LI) and those with typical language development (TL). Metho...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 317 - 330 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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