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A Normative Growth Curve for Assessing Change in Pediatric Speech and Language skills |
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Thomas Campbell - University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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Christine Dollaghan - University of Pittsburgh
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Janine Janosky - University of Pittsburgh
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P. David Adelson - University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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2005 |
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| - Assessment |
| - Neuro Development/Language |
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A Normative Growth Curve for Assessing Change in Pediatric Speech and Language Skills
Interpreting rapid change in children's conversational speech and language skills is difficult in the absence of a normative growth curve against which monthly levels of performance can be compared. Tracking change is a particular challenge in children who are in the early stages of language development and/or language recovery following neurological insult. We illustrate a technique for representing and modeling monthly-expected levels of performance in the form of a group growth curve calculated from existing data in the literature. The technique could be applied to a number of variables; in this poster we demonstrate it with the metrics Percentage Consonants Correct- Revised (Shriberg, Austin, Lewis, McSweeny, & Wilson, 1997) and Mean Length of Utterance in Morphemes.
This research was supported by grants from the NIDCD (R01DC03608) and the General Clinical Research Center at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (5M01 RR00084).
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