Janna Oetting, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Professor, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Louisiana State University

Resources

• The Language and Life Project
• DELV Screening Test
• The Complete Syntax Skills of Poor, Urban, African American Preschoolers at School Entry
• Dialect Informed Probe: Directions and Forms
• Please email [email protected] to receive a link to the Past Tense Probe PowerPoint containing 24 four-second animations
• An Informed Lens on African American English
• Specific Language Impairment in African American English and Southern White English: Measures of Tense and Agreement With Dialect-Informed Probes and Strategic Scoring
• Prologue: Toward Accurate Identification of Developmental Language Disorder Within Linguistically Diverse Schools
• DLD Flyer Version 1
• DLD Flyer Version 2

Mentioned

• Brandi Newkirk-Turner
• Ida Stockman
• John Rickford 
• Vershawn Ashanti Young

 
Suggested Reading

• Walt Wolfram’s Dialects and American English
• Delaney’s Dialect Map of American English 
• Books by Anne Charity Hudley
• The Red Balloon