According to an article published in the ASHA Wire, narrative language sampling continues to be a recommended and evidence based practice in assessment of pediatric language disorders. In a study designed for 284 children aged kindergarten-third grade, narrative language sampling measures were obtained and assessed on a number of different parameters including a child’s number of different words spoken, their mean length of utterance, and percentage of grammatical utterances in the observed sample.
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