Assessing Grammar

The Languages of LARSP

Edited by Dr. Martin J. Ball, David Crystal, Paul Fletcher

Publication date:

08 March 2012

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781847696380

This collection is a resource book for those working with language disordered clients in a range of languages. It collects together versions of the well-known Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure (LARSP) prepared for different languages. Starting with the original version for English, the book then presents versions in more than a dozen other languages. Some of these are likely to be encountered as home languages of clients by speech-language therapists and pathologists working in the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia and New Zealand. Others are included because they are major languages found where speech-language pathology services are provided, but where no grammatical profile already exists.

Martin J Ball: Introduction

1. David Crystal: On the Origin of LARSPecies

2. Paul Fletcher, Thomas Klee and William Gavin: LARSP Thirty Years On

3. Steven Long: ‘Computerized Profiling’ of Clinical Language Samples and the Issue of Time

4. Ruth Berman and Lyle Lustigman: HARSP: A Developmental Language Profile for Hebrew

5. Harald Clahsen and Detlef Hansen: Profiling Linguistic Disability in German-Speaking Children

6. Gerard W. Bol: GRAMAT: A Dutch Adaptation of LARSP

7. Martin J. Ball and Enlli Môn Thomas: LLARSP: A Grammatical Profile for Welsh

8. Jane Stokes: An Investigation of Syntax in Children of Bengali (Sylheti) Speaking Families

9. Tina Hickey: ILARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Irish

10. Habibeh Samadi and Mick Perkins: Persian: Devising the P-LARSP

11. Jelske Dijkstra and Liesbeth Schlichting: Frisian TARSP. Based on the Methodology of Dutch TARSP.

12. Lixian Jin with Bee Lim Oh and Rogayah A. Razak: C-LARSP: Developing a Chinese Grammatical Profile

13. Christophe Parisse, Christelle Maillart and Jodi Tommerdahl: F-LARSP: A Computerized Tool for Measuring Morphosyntactic Abilities in French

14. Ana Isabel Codesido-García, Carmen Julia Coloma, Elena Garayzábal-Heinze, Victoria Marrero, Elvira Mendoza, and Mª Mercedes Pávez: Spanish Acquisition and the Development of PERSL

15. Seyhun Topbaş, Özlem Cangökçe-Yaşar and Martin J. Ball: LARSP for Turkish (TR-LARSP)

This new book brings together an amazing variety of approaches to LARSP including an elegant description of the origin and evolution of LARSP, an update on research on English language applications of LARSP, an evaluation of a computerized version, and reports on adaptations of LARSP to 13 different languages. The publication of LARSP applications across multiple languages expands opportunities for clinical applications as well as clinical research associated with LARSP. The book will serve as a resource for researchers (or students) seeking to identify gaps in research suitable for future attention.