Is Sentence Repetition a Useful Diagnostic Tool for Developmental Language Disorder?

What is it about?

Through a systematic review and meta-analysis, we found that sentence repetition tasks are able to accurately identify children with developmental language disorder across a range of task and study variations.

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Why is it important?

There is a need for reliable screening tools that can identify children showing signs of having developmental language disorder. We provide evidence that sentence repetition tasks can accurately discriminate performance between monolingual children with developmental language disorder from typically developing children. Regardless of the method of test and test administration, type of scoring used, and the language of the test, diagnostic utility remained high.