Language Sampling: The Heart and Soul of Language Assessment

SLP

Language samples are considered one of the best ways to learn about a child’s language system. Unfortunately, clinicians receive varying degrees of training in language sample elicitation, transcription, and coding, and there are few opportunities to develop expertise in sample analysis unless one works in a research lab. In this talk, Drs. Pavelko and Oetting will provide an overview of the heart and soul of the language sample, sharing evidence-based procedural advances that can save a clinician time and linguistic advances that can help a clinician appropriately code and interpret children’s utterances across various dialects of English.

Presenters

Stacey Pavelko
Ph.D., CCC-SLP, FNAP
Stacey Pavelko, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, FNAP, is an associate professor in the Division of Speech and Language Pathology at Binghamton University. Her research interests include language and literacy development in preschool and early school-aged children, language sample analysis, Interprofessional Education and Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPE/IPP), and the diagnostic accuracy of screening and diagnostic measures.
Janna Oetting
Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Janna Oetting is Associate Vice President of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Allied Fields in the Office of Research and Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on the crosslinguistic study of child language development and disorders and the development and validity of culturally and linguistically appropriate language assessments for children.

Learning Objectives

Describe different language sampling contexts
Explain how to use dialect discovery worksheets
Discuss the importance of language sampling

Agenda

5 minutes	Introduction to the Series
20 minutes	Review of Language Sampling (contexts, ages)
5 minutes	Introduction to SUGAR
10 minutes	Tutorial on Complex Verb Structures
10 minutes	Transcribing Child Language Across Dialects of English
5 minutes	Using Dialect Discovery Worksheets with Language Samples
5 minutes	Preview of prerecorded sessions

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial	Stacey Pavelko and Janna Oetting have each received an honorarium from Bright Ideas Media for this presentation.
Speakers - Nonfinancial	Stacey Pavelko and Janna Oetting have no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
Course - Content	Stacey Pavelko and Janna Oetting have no relevant content information to disclose.
Course - Financial Support & In Kind	This course is being sponsored by SLP Toolkit and CLaSSLab.

ASHA

This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs, Introductory Level, Professional Area