All areas of language: FORM, CONTENT, and USE, can be analyzed with this resource: morphemes, obligatory context, grammatical morphemes, phonological process, semantic relations, pragmatics, type-token ratio, percent of grammatical utterances, syntactic sentence structure, and more!

1:35 minute preview or 2:00 minute preview with brief explanation

Watch the 4-part video Playlist

View the entire playlist or jump to a section below for a detailed view into this resource, as well as how-to-use this system:

1. Coding utterances to count morphemes, words, and type-token ratio (7:38 min)
2. Type-Token Ratio and Word Class Analysis (8:50 min) even more analysis
3. Obligatory Context of Grammatical Morphemes (8:57 min)
4. Analysis Tables (12:00 min)

This REPRODUCIBLE template has been a vision of mine since undergrad and it is finally what I imagined it could be! It contains each language area shown below so you can analyze a language sample in one consolidated file.

Make a new copy for each new language sample analysis completed. Transcribe, count morphemes, and complete your analysis for each utterance in any of the applicable language area provided on the template using drop-downs. Completing the template will allow the database to export your analysis directly onto tables— into separate worksheets (for each child utterance that contains data).

Here is the full list of the tabs and reporting options included when you download this resource:

1. Table of Contents: hyperlinks to navigate through the document
2. Language Sample Template: transcribe and analyze each utterance for each of these areas of speech and language, according to the template: Semantic Relations, Obligatory Context of Early (14) Grammatical Morphemes, Pronouns, Irregular Past Tense Verbs, Grammatical Accuracy of Utterance, Syntactic Structure of Utterance, Syllable Structure of words within an utterance (e.g., CV, VC, CVC), Phonological Process, Consonant and Initial Consonant Blends Acquisition, and Pragmatics (text field for clinician observations, if necessary)
3. Sample written Report Template/Outline (optional) there is a sample outline you can fill in with your written analysis obtained from your language sample. Summarize your findings in a written report, using this template as a suggested guide (feel free to edit to your preferences!). This template also incorporates optional tables to display important information. This would be similar to writing your report in Word or Docs, but it‘a done in the spreadsheet, keeping you in one file— you can always export the final report by saving any of the spreadsheet tabs to a PDF.
4. Early Language prelinguistic communicative development, and other early language info
5. Fourteen Grammatical Morphemes
6. Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
7. Basic Concepts: approximate age milestones
8. Following Directives: overview
9. Play & Language Development
10. EI Language Checklist (Informal): by speech and language skill area and approximate age of acquisition
11. Phonology: includes data on syllable structure, consonant sound acquisition across languages (*informal" guide for English, Spanish, Cantonese, and Arabic), phoneme acquisition overview, phonological processes overview of the 3 different error types: (1) Syllable Structure, (2) Substitution, and (3) Assimilation
12. IPA Consonant Chart place, manner, voice
13. Consonant Norms: age of acquisition for consonants in all word positions, plus approximate ages for initial consonant blends (updated design - see freebie of this chart here; based on multiple research-based studies for greater depth of analysis)
14. Phonological Processes huge list provided (with approximate age of suppression/elimination), also fully editable and expandable.
15. Pragmatics: a variety of quick references (add more if desired) e.g., profile of skills, suggestions for assessing, conversational skills, school-age pragmatic and semantic, checklist, observation checklist
16. Semantics: overview of word classes, semantic categories, pronouns, etc.
17. Semantics: Word Class Reference Table contains a huge list of nouns, relative pronouns, determiners, etc., along with a definition for a quick refresher when needed, and is fully editable and expandable.
18. Semantics: Type-Token Ratio will automatically be calculated based on transcript entry!
19. Semantics: Type-Token Ratio OPTIONAL Worksheet for more analysis, the words produced in the transcript can be ‘coded’ by word class based on context of use (e.g., “I’m” running -vs- “I’m” happy results in the word “I’m” belonging to two different word classes based on how it’s used.)
20. Syntax: Utterance-by-Utterance Worksheet that includes a description and example for syntactic structures such as, phrase types (noun, verb, prepositional), clauses (i.e., main, subordinate), sentence types (e.g., simple, compound-complex, passive)
21. Syntax: Sentence formation (phrases, clauses, structures, and function)
22. Percentage Grammatical Utterances: Norms/Suggested Procedures
23. Morphology: Brown's 14 grammatical morphemes, derivational and inflectional morphemes, common prefixes for grades 3-9, irregular verb development table (over 40 verbs ⟳ Shipley, K. G., Maddox, M. A., & Driver, J. E. (1991). Children's development of irregular past tense verb forms. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 22(3), 115-122.
24. Morpho-Syntactic (Stages of development)
25. Obligatory Context of Grammatical Morphemes (Automated Results)
26. Obligatory Context of Grammatical Morphemes OPTIONAL Worksheet • Reminder: an obligatory context is when a grammatical morpheme is required because of the sentence structure (places in adult language where the grammatical structure should happen for syntactical accuracy). Determine if a grammatical morpheme was "obligatory" for each utterance (whether the child produced that grammatical morpheme or not), and age-appropriate use of grammatical morphemes can be determined.

Disclaimer: No one resource is ever the be-all and end-all. Language sampling should be part of a comprehensive diagnostic composite, along with clinical judgement. You know the drill! Also, this file is comprehensive but by no means is it exhaustive! It is meant to give you nearly all of what you need to assess many of the key components of language. On a personal note—I have poured my ♥️ into creating this resource and spent countless hours designing the layout, design, and overall functionality. With that in mind, it is still likely there are, hopefully minor, errors or missing hyperlinks, etc,… please kindly reach out to me if you come across any issues, however big or small they seem! I’m dedicated to revising and improving this resource!

Note about this update: This (March 2022) version replaces the original release (April 2021), but if you want to check out the prior version, it will still be available with this purchase. You can also view the original video for it too: Watch a Demo for the Language Sample Template [excerpt] Here.

Feedback, comments, suggestions always welcomed.

If you need any help, get stuck, or feel like you don't understand something even after watching the videos feel free to email me: speechaboutlanguage@gmail.com ㋡