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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Dear all,</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Below is a summary of the responses to my query, with a very sincere *Thank You* to Isabelle Barrière, Ruth Berman, Paul Fletcher, Judith Johnston and Tom Roeper.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>These are some of the instruments in current use: </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>CELF (Psychological Corporation).</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">For English- and Spanish-speaking children, used by SLPs.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Information available from </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="http://harcourtassessment.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/default">http://harcourtassessment.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/default</A> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Creative Curriculum Development.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">For English and Spanish. Includes a teachers' observation instrument, and discourse assessment.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">DELV (</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Psychological Corporation).</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Developed for AAE by Harry Seymour, Jill deVilliers, and Tom Roeper. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Information available from </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><A href="http://www.umass.edu/aae/">http://www.umass.edu/aae/</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">ERRNI (Dorothy Bishop -- Psychological Corporation).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Normed instrument, accounts for discourse development.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">NRS report.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Tests vocabulary (subtest of Peabody), </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">a few syntactic structures and mathematical abilities in English and Spanish. Used for bilinguals too, though not normed on bilinguals. Does not test discourse abilities.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Preschool Language Skills.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">For English- and Spanish-speaking children, used by SLPs. <SPAN style="COLOR: black"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Rice-Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment.(Psychological Corporation).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">For morphosyntax, particularly verb morphology.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>SALT.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Description and illustration at </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><A href="http://www.languageanalysislab.com/">www.languageanalysislab.com</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>User-friendly, p</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">rovides normative data on a wide range of variables, enabling profiling of discourse, length, processing, lexical, morphological and syntactic variables. Own coding required for in-depth analysis, namely, of syntax. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Judith Johnston and Funda Acarlar have completed a version of this programme for Turkish speaking children, forthcoming as </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Acarlar, F. & Johnston, J. (2006) Computer-based analysis of Turkish child language: Clinical and research applications, Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 4, 78-94.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">TROG-2 (Dorothy Bishop -- Psychological Corporation).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Normed for comprehension of grammar.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Other comments:</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Isabelle Barrière suggested references about the lack of standardised assessment tools for discourse and about a coding system for the Frog Story to enable its application across languages, cultures and age-groups. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">She is currently working on a summary of different assessment instruments aimed at Special Education.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Ruth Berman suggested looking at the "Nun studies", viz. Tracy Mitzner and Susan Kemper's, and kindly sent me a paper forthcoming in _Discourse Processes_: Berman & <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Nir-Sagiv '</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Comparing Narrative and Expository Text Construction Across Adolescence:</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>A Developmental Paradox'. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Judith Johnston's new book addresses assessment instruments in clinical practice, including the use of SALT. Reference (available through Amazon):<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Johnston, J. (2006) Thinking about child language: Research to practice. Thinking Publications.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">CDI.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Though not addressed in my query, two pointers were certainly relevant:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Isabelle Barrière is directing research on templates to code cross-linguistic CDI-gathered data to account for grammatical development and form-meaning mapping. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Paul Fletcher (with Twila Tardif et al.) normed CDI for Mandarin in Beijing. Publication is expected this year.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>About LARSP: </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>I gathered that it may still be used in SLP courses in a few English-speaking European countries, in South Africa and Australasia, but not in America (USA, Canada).</SPAN></P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>====================================== <BR>Madalena Cruz-Ferreira <BR>Dept. English Language and Literature <BR>National University of Singapore <BR><A href="mailto:ellmcf@nus.edu.sg">ellmcf@nus.edu.sg</A> <BR></FONT><A href="https://exchange.nus.edu.sg/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://exchange.nus.edu.sg/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmcf/" target=_blank><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmcf/</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> <BR>======================================</FONT> </DIV></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>