Receptive Language Case Study

Tina is 6 years, 11 month old English-speaking female who is attending the kindergarten at Pottsbore Primary in the morning and attends a neighborhood childcare in the afternoon. Tina’s parents share joint custody of her. During the week, Tina lives with her mother and lives with her father during the weekends. Tina’s mother is an administrative assistant for a law firm. Her father is a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company. According to Tina’s mother, she had a normal pregnancy and delivery. Tina weighed 6 pounds 1 ounce at birth. At the age of 2, Tina was hospitalized for pneumonia. Tina has been a healthy child after her hospitalization. Tina reached all her developmental milestones within the expected timeframes (e.g., walking, talking, toilet training). Tina’s …show more content…
The scores indicate that Tina has a greater deficit in her expressive language abilities than receptive

Language Content Index Score: The Language Content Index is composed of Concepts and Following Directions, Word Classes-Total, and Expressive Vocabulary. Tina obtained a standard score of 82 (confidence interval of 76-88) indicating a standard deviation of -1.2 below the mean. The percentile rank indicates that Tina scored at or below 12% of the normative group. These scores indicate that Tina is in the borderline range.
Language Structure Index Score: The Language Structure Index Score is composed of Word Structures, Recalling Sentences, Formulated Sentences, and Sentence Structure. Tina obtained a standard score of 48 (confidence interval of 42-54) indicating a standard deviation of -3.47 below the mean. The percentile rank indicates that Tina scored at or below < .1% of the normative group. These scores indicate that Tina’s performance in language structure abilities is in the very low