Background: Social communication assessment after traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a
challenging area within speech-language pathology (SLP) clinical practice. Difficulties …

In this article, we review the advantages of language sample analysis (LSA) and explain
how clinicians can make the process of LSA faster, easier, more accurate, and more …

Purpose: Most speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working with children with
developmental language disorder (DLD) do not perform language sample analysis (LSA) on …

Background: Linguistic discourse analysis is an assessment method widely applied within
aphasia research literature to examine impairments as they affect the language of daily …

This study examined the validity of data collected from a novel online story retell task. The
task was specifically designed for use by junior school teachers with the support of speech …

Purpose: Language sampling is a critical component of language assessments. However,
there are many ways to elicit language samples that likely impact the results. The purpose of …

Oral narrative abilities are an important measure of children's language competency and
have predictive value for children's later academic performance. Research and development …

Purpose The goal of this study was to investigate the extent to which sample length affected
the reliability of total number of words (TNW), number of different words (NDW), and mean …

Purpose This study examined the accuracy and potential clinical utility of two expedited
transcription methods for narrative language samples elicited from school-age children (7; 5 …

Purpose: Language sample analysis (LSA) represents an ecologically valid method for
diagnosing, identifying goals, and measuring progress in children with developmental …