Assignment task:
Does this PLAAFP integrate at least three sources of data? Ella has demonstrated significant gains in her expressive and receptive language skills throughout the past year in preschool. Ella's spontaneous utterances are becoming more complex, as she adds new types of words to her vocabulary. She is using the pronoun "I, me, my, he, she, and you," and occasionally plural and possessive s- pronouns (babies, mommies). She is using the -ed and -ing verb endings with consistency. Ella is also using some descriptive language on occasion, including size concepts (big, small, tiny) and some colors (blue, pink). Ella is beginning to more independently self-advocate and make requests from peers using her words. She is beginning to cooperatively play with peers with preferred materials (cooking in the house area, playing with doll house people). In these interactions, Ela can use simple sentences to narrate her play, such as "come on, sister;" "it's doctor office," "daddy's home." A language sample of Ella's spontaneous utterances was gathered during 03 minutes of free choice play on 12/7/23. Ella's clarity of speech was 90% intelligible. Her Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) was also calculated. MLU is a measurement of sentence length and complexity, determined by calculating