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Um . . . Inappropriate Much?

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I'm proofreading a book right now that centers on childhood language disorders. Interspersed in the text are samples of diagnostic tests and reading inventories -- tools a speech-language pathologist would use in order to decide if a kid had a disorder of some type.

In one of these samples there is a list of sentences the child is supposed to read while the SLP scores his or her "performance." These sentences include things like,

Who is on the phone?
I like these.
I watched him yesterday.
I am going to nursery school.

And

Where is the gun?

Really?
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