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language comprehension CONCEPT
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The ability to understand communication from others, such as speech, written text, gestures, or sign language.

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Asserted relationships to other concepts

language comprehension
is a kind of
  • language processing
    • language comprehension
    is a part of
    No associations
    are a kind of
    language comprehension
  • word comprehension
  • text comprehension
  • sentence comprehension
  • discourse comprehension
  • narrative comprehension
    • are a part of
    language comprehension
    No associations

    Tasks that are asserted to measure language comprehension

    Task Contrast Measure
    following commands
    • highest level of command correctly performed
    Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-3
    • concepts and directions subtest
    • semantic relationships subtest
    Gray Oral Reading Test - 4
    • sum of rate, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension scaled scores
    Test of Word Reading Efficiency
    • standard deviation from the mean score
    intermodal preferential looking paradigm
    • d'
    MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories
    • mean length of utterance (MLU) score
    • gesture production
    Reynell Developmental Language Scales
    • verbal comprehension
    Preschool Language Scale
    • auditory comprehension
    Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales
    • comprehension
    Test of Early Language Development
    • receptive language
    Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
    • receptive communication
    Differential Ability Scales
    • verbal comprehension

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