PPVT as a measure of language impairment?

[Nan Ratner]

There is an article on this topic in the most recent issue of Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, by Gray, Plante, Vance and Henrichsen. Basically, it does not support the use of vocabulary tests to identify SLI.

cheers,

Nan


Nan Bernstein Ratner, Ed.D.
Chairman
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
University of Maryland
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