Laura Lee

1911-1987

Laura Lee was the creator of Developmental Sentence Analysis approaches to language measurement. The scoring included measures of levels of language performance for children at the pre-sentence stage (Developmental Sentence Types) and after they were able to form basic sentences (Developmental Sentence Scoring). She and Susan Mulhern developed a therapy approach, called Interactive Language Development Teaching, for enhancing sentence structure through story telling.

Northwestern 1956-1980

Awarded article of greatest merit, 1971, ASHA

Honors of ASHA, 1979

Small paragraph in ASHA, 29, April 1987, p. 20

Husband, Irving J. Lee, linguist with focus in general semantics

Co authored with husband: Handling barriers in communication.

Writings

Lee, L. (1966). Developmental sentence types: A method for comparing normal and deviant syntactic development. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 31, 311-320.

Lee, L. L. (1958). Two kinds of disturbed communication. General Semantics Bulletin, 49, 22-23.

Lee, L. L. (1969). Recent studies in language acquisition. ASHA, 11, 272-274.

Lee, L. L. (1970). A screening test for syntax development. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 25, 103-112.

Lee, L. L. (1971). Northwestern Syntax Screening Test. Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Lee, L. L., & Canter, S. (1971). Developmental sentence scoring: A clinical procedure for estimating syntactic development in children's spontaneous speech. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 36, 315-338.

Lee, L. L. (1974) Developmental sentence analysis. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Lee, L. L., Koenigsknecht, R., & Mulhern, S. (1975). Interactive language development teaching. Evanston, Il. Northwestern University Press.