– Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a type of communication disorder that impacts learning and the use of language. DLD causes problems with speaking and understanding.
– Approximately 7.6% of all children have DLD.
– Sentence repetition is a promising task for screening people with DLD but for adults we need to make it more accurate.
– A prior study examined how accurately adults will repeat sentences at different lengths and structures.
– Passive sentences are a less-frequent structure (Roland et al., 2007), therefore they may be more challenging to reconstruct.
– We did not observe a significant difference in accuracy between active and passive structures.
– Error analysis can reveal subtle differences in processing based on current speech production models.
Author(s): Madison Burton, Speech Pathology & Audiology Major
Advisor(s): Gerard H. Poll, Speech Pathology and Audiology Department
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