2/28/26, 1:01 PM SLP 5110: Final exam set
SLP 5110: Final exam
What is the best LSA context to elicit a language
sample for early intervention?
Play time, most natural setting possible, reading
a book with only pictures, telling and retelling
stories, and
recording the session.
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,2/28/26, 1:01 PM SLP 5110: Final exam set
What is CLAN? Pros/ Cons?
The Computerized Language Analysis (Deeper
analysis and Multilingual Flexibility) program
automates morpheme coding and offers
advanced analysis tools, making language
sample analysis more efficient and accurate.
Limitations:
The comparison database is for English-speaking
children only.
CHILDES lacks complete demographic data.
KIDEVAL results are still considered experimental
for clinical diagnosis.
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, 2/28/26, 1:01 PM SLP 5110: Final exam set
What is Language Sample Analysis? Why is it
used? What is the benefit?
-It involves collecting a sample of a person's
spoken or written language and analyzing it to
assess various aspects of their language
development and use.
-It measures: Mean Length Utterance, Total
Number of Words, Number of Different Words,
Type-token Ratio,
Morpho-syntactic Analysis, speech intelligibility,
and narrative structure.
Complexity, Articulation abilities. Narrative
skills, Perspective-taking, Comprehension,
Imitation,
Direction-following abilities, Second-language
influence, Cultural differences, and Low language
experience.
-Benefits of LSA: naturalistic and functional,
culturally and linguistically sensitive, flexible
and individualized, detailed information on what
it measures, supports
progress, planning, and goal settings.
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SLP 5110: Final exam
What is the best LSA context to elicit a language
sample for early intervention?
Play time, most natural setting possible, reading
a book with only pictures, telling and retelling
stories, and
recording the session.
/ 1/29
,2/28/26, 1:01 PM SLP 5110: Final exam set
What is CLAN? Pros/ Cons?
The Computerized Language Analysis (Deeper
analysis and Multilingual Flexibility) program
automates morpheme coding and offers
advanced analysis tools, making language
sample analysis more efficient and accurate.
Limitations:
The comparison database is for English-speaking
children only.
CHILDES lacks complete demographic data.
KIDEVAL results are still considered experimental
for clinical diagnosis.
/ 2/29
, 2/28/26, 1:01 PM SLP 5110: Final exam set
What is Language Sample Analysis? Why is it
used? What is the benefit?
-It involves collecting a sample of a person's
spoken or written language and analyzing it to
assess various aspects of their language
development and use.
-It measures: Mean Length Utterance, Total
Number of Words, Number of Different Words,
Type-token Ratio,
Morpho-syntactic Analysis, speech intelligibility,
and narrative structure.
Complexity, Articulation abilities. Narrative
skills, Perspective-taking, Comprehension,
Imitation,
Direction-following abilities, Second-language
influence, Cultural differences, and Low language
experience.
-Benefits of LSA: naturalistic and functional,
culturally and linguistically sensitive, flexible
and individualized, detailed information on what
it measures, supports
progress, planning, and goal settings.
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