Language Sampling with Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Implications for Intervention

Fourth Edition

Marilyn A. Nippold

Details: 400 pages, B&W, Softcover, 7" x 10"

ISBN13: 978-1-63550-794-2

Release Date: 02/01/2027

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In this thoroughly updated Fourth Edition of Language Sampling with Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Implications for Intervention, Marilyn A. Nippold provides clinicians and graduate students with a practical, evidence-informed framework for eliciting, transcribing, analyzing, and interpreting spoken and written language samples to guide meaningful intervention. Through clear explanations, step-by-step instruction, and extensive practice opportunities, readers develop the knowledge and confidence needed to evaluate language across conversational, narrative, expository, and persuasive discourse.

Organized to build understanding from foundational grammatical concepts to increasingly sophisticated language analyses, this accessible resource bridges theory and clinical application while emphasizing real-world communication across diverse ages and contexts. Whether used in graduate courses on language development or disorders, or everyday clinical practice, this trusted text equips readers with the skills to obtain richer assessment data, make better informed diagnostic and intervention decisions, and support successful communication outcomes for children, adolescents, and young adults.

New to the Fourth Edition

Broadened coverage to include young adults, expanding the book's lifespan focus to individuals ages 3 through 25
Reorganized content that builds foundational knowledge through a progressive sequence of grammar concepts before language sample analysis
Enhanced instruction with expanded grammar review, including definitions, examples, and practice exercises that strengthen understanding of language analysis
Refined organization of discourse chapters, providing a systematic approach to eliciting and analyzing conversational, narrative, expository, and persuasive language samples
Additional practice opportunities supported by answer keys that reinforce learning and facilitate independent skill development

Authors

Marilyn A. Nippold

Marilyn A. Nippold, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a professor of communication disorders and sciences at the University of Oregon where she has worked since 1982, teaching and conducting research in later language development, literacy, language disorders, stuttering, and critical thinking. Professor Nippold is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and was awarded ASHA Honors in 2015. She received the Editor’s Award for articles published in ASHA journals in 1983 and 2001, and the Outstanding Publications Award from the Division of Communication, Language, and Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DCD) in 2009. She has published ten books, more than 140 journal articles and book chapters, and has served as editor-in-chief of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools (2010–2015). A philosopher, scholar, and truth-seeker, Professor Nippold received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles; her master’s degree in communicative disorders from California State University Long Beach; and her doctorate in speech-language-hearing sciences from Purdue University. A licensed speech-language pathologist, she is a frequent presenter at state, national, and international conferences.

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