The cultural appropriateness and diagnostic usefulness of standardized language assessments for Indigenous Australian children.

Speech-language pathologists experience uncertainty about how to interpret standardized assessment results for Indigenous Australian children. There are risks for inappropriate diagnosis: both over- and under-diagnosis of language impairment may occur due to a convergence of linguistic features whic...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pearce, W., Williams, Corinne
Format: Journal Article
Published: Informa Healthcare 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8778