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Speech Samples: How to Elicit, Interpret, and Set Treatment Goals

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Print Resource — US Letter — 5 pages

Population:

Pediatric

Discipline:

SLP

Diagnosis:

Articulation and PhonologyLanguage Development

References:

  • Spencer, T. D., Tolentino, T. J., & Fostera, M. E. (2023). Impact of discourse type and elicitation task on language sampling outcomes. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
  • Wilder, A., & Redmond, S. M. (2022). The reliability of short conversational language sample measures in children with and without developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
  • Hill, E., Whitworth, A., Boyes, M., Ziegelaar, M., & Claessen, M. (2021). The influence of genre on adolescent discourse skills: Do narratives tell the whole story? International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
  • Nyman, A., Strömbergsson, S., & Lohmander, A. (2021). Canonical babbling ratio–concurrent and predictive evaluation of the 0.15 criterion. Journal of Communication Disorders, 94, 106164.
  • Guo, L. Y., Eisenberg, S., Schneider, P., & Spencer, L. (2019). Percent grammatical utterances between 4 and 9 years of age for the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument: Reference data and psychometric properties. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 28(4), 1448-1462.
This resource gives helpful tips and a roadmap to getting speech samples across age ranges, ways to interpret them and directions for how to make meaningful goals.
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