Document Type
Article
Publication Title
The Importance of Speech-Language Pathologists’ Explicit Knowledge of Morphology
Abstract
Purpose: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) work with students with Specific Language Impairment and Specific Learning Disorder who are known to have deficits in morphological knowledge and morphological awareness. Thus, it is important that SLPs have explicit knowledge of morphology to classify, elicit, and correct morphological errors to improve these students’ morphological knowledge and morphological awareness. The purpose of this clinical focus paper is to summarize current evidence about SLPs’ and other educators’ explicit knowledge of language, to identify information that supports explicit knowledge of morphology, and to illustrate the use of explicit knowledge of morphology with a hypothetical case study.
Method: A case-based demonstration of an SLP’s use of her or his explicit knowledge of morphology to analyze a fourth-grade student’s production of derivational morphemes in a spoken language sample and on a sentence completion task is presented.
Results and Conclusion: The SLP’s morphological analyses and summarization of the analyses are presented.
Publication Date
2020
Recommended Citation
Brimo, Danielle and Henbest, Victoria, "The Importance of Speech-Language Pathologists' Explicit Knowledge of Morphology" (2020). Victoria S. Henbest Publications. 12.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/henbest_pubs/12
Comments
This is the peer-reviewed version of the following article: Brimo, D. & Henbest, V.S. (2020). The importance of speech-language pathologists’ explicit knowledge of morphology. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 51(3), 561-571 which is published in its final form at https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_LSHSS-19-00057. This article may not be used commercially or be enhanced, enriched, or transformed in any way without permission from the authors and publishers.