What test should I use?
Appropriate assessment of Hispanic children requires clinicians to have knowledge of the cultural and linguistic factors that influence the communication skills of these children. This knowledge base includes an understanding of variations in the social and linguistic characteristics of Hispanic subgroups. Knowledge of these characteristics provides clinicians with the framework necessary to conduct less biased assessments. Clinicians possessing this framework would be able to conduct assessments that take into consideration the child's social ecology and the impact of dialect, first and second language acquisition, and language loss on the child's communication skills.
Iglesias
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Department of Communication Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. iglesias@astro.temple.edu
D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007807:Language Tests; D019303:Multilingualism; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*