The Performance of Low-Income, African American Children on the Preschool Language Scale-3.
This study examined the performance of 701 low-income African American preschoolers (36 to 52 months old) on the Preschool Language Scale-3 (PLS-3, I. L. Zimmerman, V. G. Steiner, & R. E. Pond, 1992). On average, African American children performed about 1 SD below the expected means for their ages...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 576 - 591 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
June 2003
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