Sample Analyses

“The client, age 3;0, produced a mean length of utterance of 2.25 morphemes across 8 utterances during a free play context. This falls below age expectations (expected range 2.5–3.0 for 36 months) and corresponds to Brown's Stage II. Grammatical errors included pronoun case substitutions ("him run" for "he runs", "me want" for "I want") and copula omission. The sample suggests the client would benefit from targeted intervention focusing on pronoun case and verb inflection.”

“The client, age 4;6, demonstrated an MLU of 8.00 morphemes across 9 utterances during a narrative retell task. This significantly exceeds age expectations and reflects advanced syntactic complexity with multi-clause sentences. Overregularization errors ("waked", "falled", "throwed") are developmentally typical at this age and indicate productive application of past-tense rules. Narrative structure includes a clear initiating event, search sequence, and resolution. No clinical concern is indicated at this time.”

“The client, age 5;0, produced an MLU of 6.86 morphemes across 7 utterances in a bilingual conversational sample. Per-utterance language tagging shows 4 Spanish and 3 mixed-language utterances — a code-switching pattern consistent with balanced bilingual development. Spanish utterances demonstrate age-appropriate morphological complexity including subjunctive mood ("quería darles"). One English overregularization ("eated") was noted. Overall performance falls within expectations for age. Code-switching frequency should be interpreted as a bilingual strength, not a deficit.”