This year I am not attending the
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention in Denver, CO and it is
the first year for many years I am not going. I was the topic co-chair for the Cultural and Linguistic Considerations Across the Discipline
Committee so I have a good idea of a number of excellent sessions
that will be presented over the next few days. I am involved in two oral
presentations and one poster presentation:
- Assessment and Analysis of Polysyllables in Children With Speech Sound
Disorders: Sarah Masso, Sharynne McLeod, Elise Baker, Jane McCormack Polysyllables
may unlock the relationship between speech, language, literacy and phonological
processing. Ninety-three preschool children with speech sound disorders were
assessed using the Polysyllable Preschool Test. Seven categories of polysyllable
error were identified: (1) substitutions, (2) deletions, (3) distortions,
(4)additions, (5) alterations in timing, (6)alterations in phonotactics,
(7)alterations in sequence.
- Validation of the Intelligibility in Context Scale as a Subjective
Measure for Jamaican Creole- Speaking Preschoolers: Megan McDonald, KarlaWashington, Sharynne McLeod,
Kathryn Crowe, and Hubert Devonish Ninety-eight
children aged 3-to-6-years, who use Jamaican Creole and Standard Jamaican English,
participated in a study to establish the validity and reliability of the
Intelligibility in Context Scale-Jamaican Creole
(ICS-JC). The ICS-JC demonstrated good psychometric
properties for construct and criterion validity and reliability (internal
consistency, test-retest, inter-rater).
- Cultural and Diagnostic Appropriateness of Standardized Language
Assessments for Bilingual-Speakers: Considering Jamaican Creole- Speaking
Preschoolers: Lauren
Mikhail, Maggie Gilmore, Karla
Washington, Sharynne McLeod, Hubert Devonish, Maureen Samms-Vaughan
