Language abilities of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children from low socioeconomic backgrounds in their first year of school.
Purpose: Concern exists about the cross-cultural appropriateness of existing language assessments for non-mainstream populations, including Indigenous children who may speak a non-standard dialect of the mainstream language. This study therefore aims to investigate the language skills of Indigenous...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 212 - 224 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2019
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