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Tools and guides for speech and language sampling
Find a tool for your analysis, explore the steps of a language sample, or go straight to a specific topic.
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Start with a transcript and check the child’s productions against your recording. Calculate PCC and review consonant-by-consonant results.
Open tool →Language sampling guides
Follow the process from planning to reporting, or choose the stage you need.
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Plan and prepare
Choose the task, materials, and analysis together, accounting for the speaker’s communication profile and the purpose of sampling.
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Collect
Conduct and record the interaction.
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Transcribe
Represent the recording using the conventions for your chosen analysis.
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Analyze and interpret
Calculate the selected measures, apply reference comparisons, and examine the language behind the results.
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Report findings and decide next steps
Organize the sample conditions, results, examples, and implications for a report or discussion.
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