Sentence Repetition as a Diagnostic Tool for Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Purpose: This systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis examines the accuracy of sentence repetition (SR) tasks in distinguishing between typically developing (TD) children and children with developmental language disorder (DLD). It explores variation in the way that SR tasks are administered a...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; no. 7; pp. 2191 - 2222 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=178362734&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 178362734 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2024 vid: 67 iid: 7 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 178362734 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00490 ppf: 2191 ppct: 31 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2.7MB tig: atl: Sentence Repetition as a Diagnostic Tool for Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. aug: au: Ward, Leah Polišenská, Kamila Bannard, Colin affil: Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Department of Language and Communication Science, City University of London, United Kingdom. Department of Linguistics and English Language, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. su: Age distribution Information resources Medical screening Children Language disorder diagnosis Diagnosis of child development deviations Phonological awareness Meta-analysis Descriptive statistics Systematic reviews MEDLINE Speech evaluation Treatment effect heterogeneity Quality assurance Speech therapy Psychology information storage & retrieval systems Sensitivity & specificity (Statistics) sug: subj: Age distribution Information resources Medical screening Children All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services Language disorder diagnosis Diagnosis of child development deviations Phonological awareness Meta-analysis Descriptive statistics Systematic reviews MEDLINE Speech evaluation Treatment effect heterogeneity Quality assurance Speech therapy Psychology information storage & retrieval systems Sensitivity & specificity (Statistics) ab: Purpose: This systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis examines the accuracy of sentence repetition (SR) tasks in distinguishing between typically developing (TD) children and children with developmental language disorder (DLD). It explores variation in the way that SR tasks are administered and/or evaluated and examines whether variability in the reported ability of SR to detect DLD is related to these differences. Method: Four databases were searched to identify studies that had used an SR task on groups of monolingual children with DLD and TD children. Searches produced 3,459 articles, of which, after screening, 66 were included in the systematic review. A multilevel meta-analysis was then conducted using 46 of these studies. Multiple preregistered subgroup analyses were conducted in order to explore the sources of heterogeneity. Results: The systematic review found a great deal of methodological variation, with studies spanning 19 languages, 39 SR tasks, and four main methods of production scoring. There was also variation in study design, with different sampling (clinical and population sampling) and matching (age and language matching) methods. The overall meta-analysis found that, on average, TD children outperformed children with DLD on the SR tasks by 2.08 SDs. Subgroup analyses found that effect size only varied as a function of the matching method and language of the task. Conclusions: Our results indicate that SR tasks can distinguish children with DLD from both age- and language-matched samples of TD children. The usefulness of SR appears robust to most kinds of task and study variation. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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