Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences & Research

Sentence Repetition Task as a Measure to Detect Developmental Language Disorder in Persian

Document Type : Original Articles

Authors

Mohammad Majid Oryadi-Zanjani 1, 2
Pardis Yari 3, 4
Zahra Kalkateh 4, 5

1 Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

2 Rehabilitation Sciences Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

3 Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4 Student Research Committee, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

5 Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30476/jrsr.2022.94026.1259
Abstract
Background
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a common disorder in childhood. The aim of this study was to investigate the performance of Persian-speaking children on sentence repetition task (SRT) as a measure to detect DLD.
Methods
As a cross-sectional and observational study, seven 5-to-7-year-old Persian-speaking children with DLD and thirty normal peers were studied using the Persian version of test of language development (TOLD-P: 3) as a diagnostic test and SRT. Finally, the performance of two groups on the SRT was compared by statistical tests at the significance level of 0.05.
Results
The score of SRT between the children suspected to have DLD and their normal peers were significantly different (P<0.05). Indeed, there was a significant difference between the groups in terms of the mean scores of prepositions (P<0.01), conjunctions (P<0.01), plural case (P<0.01), subject-verb agreement (P<0.05), and word order (P<0.05).
Conclusion
The SRT can be used as a promising measure for early detection and intervention of Persian-speaking children with DLD.

Keywords

Developmental language disorder
sentence repetition task
measure
children
Persian
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Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences & Research
Volume 9, Issue 3
Summer 2022
Pages 134-137

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