| ISBN13: | 9781630919443 |
| ISBN10: | 1630919446 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 406 pages |
| Size: | 254x178 mm |
| Weight: | 453 g |
| Language: | English |
| 759 |
A Guide to Global Language Assessment
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Featuring the viewpoints of contributors from around the world, this book boasts a complete database of available global language assessments. This book is an essential tool for empowering current and future speech-language therapists, professors, and researchers to address global language assessment across the lifespan.
For decades, the speech-language therapy profession has expressed the need for the development of language assessment materials in languages other than English for children and adults. A Guide to Global Language Assessment: A Lifespan Approach aims to meet this need by providing comprehensive information about how to assess the language of bi- and multilingual and culturally diverse clients across the world.
Featuring the viewpoints of contributors from around the world, A Guide to Global Language Assessment also boasts a complete database of available global language assessments.
What?s included in A Guide to Global Language Assessment:
- Case studies, assessment frameworks, and resources for conducting global language assessments for culturally and linguistically diverse populations
- An array of language assessment methods across a continuum such as ethnographic and dynamic assessments, narratives, and standardized language assessment
- Methods for developing local norms
A Guide to Global Language Assessment: A Lifespan Approach is an essential tool for empowering current and future speech-language therapists, professors, and researchers to address global language assessment across the lifespan.
Part I Background 1 Introduction 2 The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Framework and Global Assessment 3 Language and Language Families Part II Methods of Assessment 4 Conducting Dynamic Assessments in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Individuals 5 Ethnographic Assessment of Communication Disorders in Children 6 New Directions in Language Sample Analysis for Multilingual Contexts 7 Assessment of Narratives: A Global Perspective Part III Specific Examples of Global Assessments 8 Partnering to Develop a Community-Based Measure of Expressive Language in Guatemala 9 Drawing on Language Socialization Research to Improve Speech and Language Assessment 10 Identifying Developmental Communication Milestones in Western Kenya: A Community-Based Approach 11 Assessment of Creole Languages in the Absence of Norms: A Case Study on Guyanese Creole 12 The Development of Standardized Language Assessments and Screeners for Mandarin-Speaking Children in China: Lessons for Global Practice 13 The Use of Sentence Repetition Tasks for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Clients Across the Lifespan Part IV Assessment of Language Disorders 14 Augmentative and Alternative Communication: It Is About Having a Voice 15 Addressing Multicultural and Multilingual Aspects in the Assessment of Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder Part V Adult Language Assessment 16 Assessment in Aphasia: Global Perspectives 17 Neuropsychological Assessment in Dementia for Global Populations
