Language Sample: The purpose of a language sample is to assess a student’s length of utterance, grammar, syntax (word order) , vocabulary and function.

Length of Sample:____utterances

Longest utterance:

Mean Length of utterance (MLU):       

In accordance with research, an MLU of         morphemes equates to a language age of        months.  A predicted MLU for this child’s age would be approximately      .

Total Number of Morphemes:      

Total Number of Words:      

Total Number of Questions:

____Of____, or____% of utterances were complete and grammatically correct.

____Of____, or ____% of utterances contained one or more grammatical errors.

Examples of utterances made during assessment (excluding articulation errors) include: