Comparing “Mean Length of Utterance” and “Mean Length of Five Phrasal Utterances” between 2-To-5 Year-Old Normal Farsi-Speaking Children
Background: Since most clinical treatments of Persian children’s language impairments are based on either the therapist, clinicians’ experiences (mostly), or English language norms (sometimes), comparing two minor indices of speech quality, namely “mean Length of Utterance” (MLU) and “mean length...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research |
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| Online Access: | http://jrsr.sums.ac.ir/index.php/jrsr/article/view/26/28 |
| Summary: | Background: Since most clinical treatments of Persian children’s language
impairments are based on either the therapist, clinicians’ experiences (mostly),
or English language norms (sometimes), comparing two minor indices of speech
quality, namely “mean Length of Utterance” (MLU) and “mean length of five
phrasal utterances” (MLFPU) between different age groups of children, would
be unequivocally efficient to help diagnose and treat Farsi-Speaking Children
with language impairments.
Methods: To compare the two mentioned indices of 2 to 5-year-old normal
Farsi-speaking children, the speech samples of 500 children were scrutinized
by elicitation, transcription, and statistically analyzing their language samples.
Results: The net results prove that as the children’s ages grow from 2 to 5, the
two mentioned indices increase and extend as well.
Conclusion: The influence of chronological age on the indices varies, regarding
the type of language samples. Hence, the analysis of speech quality indices
in assessment of children’s language ability has to be performed based on the
language sampling methods. |
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| ISSN: | 2345-6159 2345-6159 |