Assessing Grammar

This book brings together versions of the Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP) in 13 different languages from around the world. It will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists around the world and for those wishing to analyse the grammatical abilities of clients of many linguistic backgrounds.

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)