Much research and clinical work in speech-language pathology depends on the validity and
reliability of data gathered through the direct observation of human behavior. This paper …

Two studies compared the performance of Puerto Rican and African American Head Start
children on presumably familiar (description) and unfamiliar (one-word labeling) test tasks …

Purpose This research was conducted to develop a clinical tool—the Index of Narrative
Microstructure (INMIS)—that would parsimoniously account for important microstructural …

The differences documented in discourse across languages may be due to both cultural and
linguistic differences. For example, cultural differences in the expectation of performance …

Studies with monolingual children have demonstrated the significance of children's narrative
development for the acquisition of literacy skills. However, little is known about the narrative …

The identification of linguistic vulnerability in school-age students is likely to require
collecting and analyzing samples of text-level discourse. Text-level discourse produced as …

summary El habla infantil de los años escolares vertebra este libro. Describir algunos hilos
que se entraman en el desarrollo lingüístico y seguir el itinerario del niño en esta compleja …

This study examined cultural variations in narrative elicitation styles among 2 groups of
mothers: Spanish-speaking Central Americans and English-speaking European Americans …

Syntactic complexity in the movie retellings of 77 school-age Spanish-speaking children was
examined using a structural constituent analysis. The results demonstrated developmental …

Narrative skills play a crucial role in organizing experience, facilitating social interaction and
building academic discourse and literacy. They are at the interface of cognitive, social, and …