The effect of examiner's race on the performance of African American children on the SCAN.
Purpose: With African American children, processing-dependent central auditory nervous system (CANS) tests, such as the Screening Test for Auditory Processing Disorders (SCAN) (Keith, 1986), may be less culturally biased than traditional knowledge-dependent standardized language measures. Keith foun...
| Publicado en: | Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 116 - 126 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Apr2000
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