Recent approaches to the identification and evaluation of language
disorders in children have moved from reliance on tests and elicitation
procedures to examination of the child's actual linguistic production in a
conversational setting. The purpose of this paper is to present 14 clinical
procedures that are available for use as language sample analyses, and to
review and evaluate several of these procedures in detail.
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