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Diagnostic Accuracy of Grammaticality and Utterance Length in Bilingual Children.
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- The Diagnostic Value of English Language Sample Measures for Identifying Developmental Language Disorder in Bilingual Children.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2026Article
- What Can English Tell Us? English Tense/Agreement Measures as Tools for Identification of Spanish-English Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2026Article
- Characterizing the Growth in Utterance Length, Grammaticality, and Subordination in Spanish and English in Bilingual Children.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2026Article
- Developmental Sentence Scoring for Preschool Language Sample Analysis: A Psychometric Update.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2026Article
- Spanish Bilingual Morphosyntactic Development in Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: Articles, Clitics, Verbs, and the Subjunctive Mood.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Longitudinal Examination of Morphosyntactic Skills in Bilingual Children: Spanish and English Standardized Scores.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Combining Nonword and Sentence Repetition to Identify Developmental Language Disorder.International journal of language & communication disordersArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of two measures derived from spontaneous language samples, mean length of utterance in words (MLUw) and percentage of grammatical utterances (PGU), in identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in Spanish-English bilingual children. We examined two approaches: best language and total language.
methodThe participants in this study included 74 Spanish-English bilingual children with (
resultsLogistic regression analyses suggested that a model that included PGU, MLUw, and age achieved the best diagnostic accuracy in predicting group membership. Both approaches, best language and total language, had fair diagnostic accuracy.
conclusionsIn combination, PGU and MLUw seem to be useful diagnostic tools to differentiate bilingual children with and without DLD. Clinical implications and usability are discussed.
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