The challenge of cross-cultural assessment—The Test of Ability To Explain for Zulu-speaking Children

B Solarsh, E Alant - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2006 - Elsevier
A culturally appropriate test, The Test of Ability To Explain for Zulu-speaking Children (TATE-
ZC), was developed to measure verbal problem solving skills of rural, Zulu-speaking …

Issues in the development of cross‐cultural assessments of speech and language for children

JA Carter, JA Lees, GM Murira, J Gona… - … Journal of Language …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[图书][B] The development of a test of communicative competence for speakers of English as a second language in Zimbabwe

KOB Allen - 1988 - search.proquest.com
This study describes the development of a test of communicative competence in English for
secondary school students in Zimbabwe. The test is intended to replace a national English …

Speech and language disorders in Kenyan children: Adapting tools for regions with few assessment resources

JA Carter, G Murira, J Gona, J Tumaini… - Journal of Psychology …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This study sought to adapt a battery of Western speech and language assessment tools to a
rural Kenyan setting. The tool was developed for children whose first language was …

The cat on a hot tin roof? Critical considerations in multilingual language assessments

T Mdlalo, RW Joubert, PS Flack - South African Journal of …, 2019 - journals.co.za
Background: In speech-language pathology (SLP), there is a paucity of resources to provide
just and equitable services to South Africa's culturally and linguistically diverse population …

Interpretation and use of standardized language assessments for diverse school-age individuals

T Girolamo, S Ghali, I Campos, A Ford - … of the ASHA special interest groups, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The ultimate aim of an assessment is to help examiners make valid conclusions
about an individual's skill given their performance on a particular measure. However …

Non‐standard assessment practices in the evaluation of communication in Australian Aboriginal children

J Gould - Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Australian Aboriginal children typically receive communication assessment services from
Standard Australian English (SAE) speaking non‐Aboriginal speech‐language pathologists …

Dynamic assessment of children from culturally diverse backgrounds

RB Gillam, ED Peña - … on Communication Disorders and Sciences in …, 2004 - ASHA
Traditionally, speech-language pathologists diagnose language impairment by comparing
children's performance on standardized language tests to the norms published in test …

Assessing Africans' cognitive development: judgment versus judgment plus explanation

TS Mwamwenda, BB Mwamwenda - The Journal of genetic …, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to investigate how Botswana children in Southern Africa
would perform on Piagetian concrete operational tasks when judgment versus judgment …

Toward a dialect-neutral Afrikaans-medium child language assessment instrument: Test item development

O van Dulm, F Southwood - Language Matters, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
This article reports on the initial phase of the development of an Afrikaans-medium language
assessment instrument which can differentiate between typical language development and …