About The Task
The Sentence Diversity Priming Task (SDPT) is a structured elicitation task designed to assess sentence diversity in young children. The SDPT is presented as an interactive picture book in which the adult and child take turns describing the actions of animated characters and objects.
Administration Tips:
- For optimized functioning, administer via computer.
- Administer in full screen mode.
- Record full administration for later scoring.
- Mute volume if child is distracted by page-turn sounds.
- See examiner manual for full administration instructions.
Acknowledgements
This work is supported in part by:
- American Speech-Language Hearing Foundation. Clinical Research Grant (Mentored). Validating the Sentence Diversity Priming Task.
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication (Project No: 5R01DC016273)
and (Project No: U01DC017135). - AI Research Institutes program by National Science Foundation and the Institute of
Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (Project No: 2229873)
We also thank the contributions of our collaborators at:
- Applied Psycholinguistics Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Language, Education, and Reading Neuroscience Lab, Northwestern University
- Early Intervention Research Group, Northwestern University
- Vanderbilt KidTalk Lab, Vanderbilt University