Research to Establish the Validity, Reliability, and Clinical Utility of a Comprehensive Language Assessment of Mandarin.
Purpose: With no existing gold standard for comparison, challenges arise for establishing the validity of a new standardized Mandarin language assessment normed in mainland China. Method: A new assessment, Diagnostic Receptive and Expressive Assessment of Mandarin (DREAM), was normed with a stratifi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 592 - 607 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=121778219&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 121778219 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2017 vid: 60 iid: 3 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 121778219 10.1044/2016_JSLHR-L-15-0334 ppf: 592 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 843KB tig: atl: Research to Establish the Validity, Reliability, and Clinical Utility of a Comprehensive Language Assessment of Mandarin. aug: au: Liu, Xueman Lucy de Villiers, Jill Chunyan Ning Rolfhus, Eric Hutchings, Teresa Lee, Wendy Jiang, Fan Yi Wen Zhang affil: Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas at Dallas Bethel Hearing and Speaking Training Center, Dallas, TX Smith College, Northampton, MA Institute of Linguistics, Tianjin Normal University, China Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Shanghai Children's Medical Center Affiliated to Medical School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China su: China Children Education Language & languages Language acquisition Mandarin dialects -- Study & teaching Test validity Test reliability Language ability testing Language acquisition testing Research methodology evaluation sug: subj: Children Education Language & languages Language acquisition China All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction Educational Support Services Administration of Education Programs Mandarin dialects -- Study & teaching Test validity Test reliability Language ability testing Language acquisition testing Research methodology evaluation ab: Purpose: With no existing gold standard for comparison, challenges arise for establishing the validity of a new standardized Mandarin language assessment normed in mainland China. Method: A new assessment, Diagnostic Receptive and Expressive Assessment of Mandarin (DREAM), was normed with a stratified sample of 969 children ages 2;6 (years; months) to 7;11 in multiple urban and nonurban regions in northern and southern China. In this study of 230 children, the sensitivity and specificity of DREAM were examined against an a priori judgment of disorders. External validity was assessed using 2 indices of language production for different age groups. Results: External validity was assessed against spontaneous language indices (correlation range: r = .6-.7; allps < .01) and narrative indices (overall: r = .45, p < .01). Sensitivity (.73) and specificity (.82) of DREAM are moderate to good using a priori judgment as the standard. The values improved to .95 and .82 when spontaneous language and narratives were added to a priori judgment to define typicality. Divergent validity was moderate with nonlinguistic indices. Conclusion: DREAM holds promise as a diagnostic test of Mandarin language impairment for children aged 2;6 to7;11. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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