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Sentence Repetition: A Useful Oral Language Screening Device

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Robin Jones
Robin Jones*
Affiliation:
University of New England
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Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Ms Robin Jones, Faculty of Education, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351.
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Abstract

Teachers, including special educators, are generally not aware of ways of evaluating the oral language competence of their students. This research study developed and trialled a sentence repetition test containing various syntactic loadings in order to determine if this is a useful screening procedure. Results indicate that sentence repetition can discriminate developmental maturity and is useful as a screening device. Results also indicate that the oral language competence of children with mild intellectual disability is lower than that of younger children of the same intellectual age.

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Research Article
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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , 1994 , pp. 21 - 27
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1994

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