Identification of Specific Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: I. Assessment in English.
Purpose: This study was designed to derive cut scores for English testing for use in identifying specific language impairment (SLI) in bilingual children who were learning English as a second language. Method: In a 1-gate design, 167 children received comprehensive language assessments in English an...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 6; pp. 1813 - 1824 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=93523720&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 93523720 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: Dec2013 vid: 56 iid: 6 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 93523720 10.1044/1092-4388(2013/12-0056) ppf: 1813 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 232KB tig: atl: Identification of Specific Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: I. Assessment in English. aug: au: Gillam, Ronald B. Peña, Elizabeth D. Bedore, Lisa M. Bohman, Thomas M. Mendez-Perez, Anita affil: Utah State University, Logan University of Texas, Austin su: English as a foreign language Language disorders in children Research funding Speech evaluation Multilingualism in children Logistic regression analysis Receiver operating characteristic curves Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Language Schools English as a foreign language Language disorders in children Research funding Speech evaluation Multilingualism in children Logistic regression analysis Receiver operating characteristic curves Descriptive statistics keyword: assessment bilingualism children Language disorders primary language impairments specific language impairment assessment bilingualism children Language disorders primary language impairments specific language impairment ab: Purpose: This study was designed to derive cut scores for English testing for use in identifying specific language impairment (SLI) in bilingual children who were learning English as a second language. Method: In a 1-gate design, 167 children received comprehensive language assessments in English and Spanish during their first-grade year. The reference standard was identification by a team of expert bilingual speech-language pathologists. Receiver operating curve (ROC) analyses were used to identify the optimal prediction model for SLI. Results: The original, English EpiSLI criteria (Tomblin, Records, & Zhang, 1996) yielded a sensitivity of .95 and a specificity of .45 (LR+ = 1.73, LR− = 0.11, and AUC = .79) for our bilinguals. Revised cutoff scores yielded a sensitivity of .86 and a specificity of .68 (LR+ = 2.67, LR− = 0.21, and AUC = .77). An optimal prediction model yielded a sensitivity of .81 and a specificity of .81 (LR+ = 4.37, LR− = 0.23 and AUC = .85). Conclusion: The results of English testing could be used to make a reasonably accurate diagnostic decision for bilingual children who had attended public school for at least 1 year and were using English at least 30% of the time. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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