title: Assessing children with language tests--which tests to use?
abstract: A group of 28 children attending a unit for children with developmental language disorders was assessed on a battery of cognitive and language tests. No relationship was found between verbal IQ and scores on other language measures. However, although correlations between the specialist language tests used were highly significant, the mean age scores obtained on the different tests were found to vary by as much as 2 years. The implications of these findings for clinical and experimental studies of children with language impairments are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Howlin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kendall
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007807:Language Tests / Q000379:methods*; D011594:Psychometrics