ERIC Number: EJ1003643
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Apr
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Early Phonological Development: Creating an Assessment Test
Stoel-Gammon, Carol; Williams, A. Lynn
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, v27 n4 p278-286 Apr 2013
This paper describes a new protocol for assessing the phonological systems of two-year-olds with typical development and older children with delays in vocabulary acquisition. The test (Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills ("PEEPS"), Williams & Stoel-Gammon, in preparation) differs from currently available assessments in that age of acquisition, based on lexical norms from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventories, served as the primary criterion for creating a word list. Phonetic and semantic properties of the words were also considered in selecting items for the test. Productions of words using the "PEEPS" protocol have been gathered from a group of children with typical development and another group with cleft lip and/or palate. By 24 months of age, the children with typical development produced more than 90% of the target words and the children with atypical development produced 73% of the words. Regarding administration, the time needed for administering the protocol decreased with age. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Acquisition, Speech Tests, Young Children, Word Lists, Child Development
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory
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