Elicited imitation: its effectiveness for speech and language screening.
The authors explored the clinical usefulness of a brief sentence-repetition screening task (SRST), by screening 382 kindergarten children and performing follow-up tests on a stratified sample of 78. Results indicate that an elicited-imitation task can predict the combined outcome of receptive and expressive language problems, as well as articulation problems. Replication, cross-validation and assessment of children with selective receptive impairments are recommended. Nevertheless, the present study demonstrates that the use of sentence-repetition screening tasks could be a very efficient strategy for screening for both language and articulation problems in kindergarten children.
Sturner
R A
RA
Duke University, Durham, NC.
Kunze
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L
Funk
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Green
J A
JA
D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D013068:Speech Production Measurement