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Sentence repetition as a clinical marker for Mandarin DLD (Wang et al., 2022) ...
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Purpose: Sentence repetition (SR) is believed to be a clinical marker for developmental language disorder (DLD) across many languages. This study explored the potential of a self-designed Mandarin SR task (MSRT) to reflect Mandarin-speaking preschoolers’ language ability and to differentiate children with and without DLD in this population. Furthermore, we aimed to compare five scoring systems for evaluating children’s MSRT performance. Method: In Study 1, the MSRT was administered to 59 typically developing (TD) children aged 3;6 (years;months) to 6;5 in China. The task was examined regarding its ability to correlate with language indices derived from children’s narrative samples. In Study 2, both a TD and a DLD group were recruited to investigate the task’s sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios to distinguish between children with and without DLD. Results: Study 1 showed that, using four of the five scoring methods, TD children’s performance on the MSRT significantly correlated with all the ...
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Child language acquisition; Speech pathology
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.23641/asha.19386257
https://asha.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Sentence_repetition_as_a_clinical_marker_for_Mandarin_DLD_Wang_et_al_2022_/19386257
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