Australian Aboriginal children typically receive communication assessment services from
Standard Australian English (SAE) speaking non‐Aboriginal speech‐language pathologists …

Many questions and issues surrounding the valid and unbiased language assessment of
Aboriginal1 children are unresolved. No test administration principles or procedures …

Speech-language pathologists experience uncertainty about how to interpret standardized
assessment results for Indigenous Australian children. There are risks for inappropriate …

The use of standardized language assessment tools with Australian Indigenous children has
been criticized for language and cultural reasons; however, this has not been tested in an …

Purpose: Concern exists about the cross-cultural appropriateness of existing language
assessments for non-mainstream populations, including Indigenous children who may …

The current article describes the results, inter‐scorer reliability, and potential sources of bias
in conducting speech‐language assessments with Aboriginal children in remote Ontario …

Background: There is an increasing demand for the assessment of speech and language in
clinical and research situations in countries where there are few assessment resources. Due …

Purpose This study explored the perceptions of speech-language pathologists with regards
to culturally responsive service delivery, assessment practices, and confidence when …

This study investigated the effect of dialectal difference on identification and rating of severity
of speech impairment in children from Indigenous Australian backgrounds. The speech of 15 …

The role and significance of speech-language pathology (SLP) is not often considered in
studies of language planning. SLP has tended to be considered more as an issue for health …