title: Standardization of a phonetic-phonological test for European-Portuguese children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop and standardize a phonetic-phonological test (Teste Fonético-Fonológico-Avaliação da Linguagem Pré-Escolar, TFF-ALPE) for the assessment of European-Portuguese (EP) children's articulation and phonological abilities.
  
  
  METHODS
  In order to standardize TFF-ALPE, 768 children aged 3;0-6;11 participated in this study. The standardization, validity and reliability of TFF-ALPE were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  TFF-ALPE presents strong cohesion and has strong inter- and intrajudge reliability. There was also a strong correlation between the TFF-ALPE data and those obtained in other studies. The content validity was demonstrated by the description of the test domain and the items that comprise TFF-ALPE.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  TFF-ALPE is a valid and reliable phonetic-phonological assessment instrument that speech-language pathologists can use with EP-speaking children.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Sciences, ESSUA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. marisalousada@ua.pt
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lousada
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Mendes
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Valente
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010699:Phonation; D010700:Phonetics; D011174:Portugal; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics; D013062:Speech Articulation Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*