DISCOVERING HIDDEN ABILITIES (DHA): BUILDING ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR CHILDREN WITH ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT.

研究问题：典型和非典型发展儿童在自然互动中出现的能力是什么？这些能力如何为替代评估框架的发展提供信息？研究背景和基本原理：评估在非典型发展（AD）儿童的生活中持续存在，在提供支持、融入主流学校和评估他们的发展进步方面产生影响。然而，标准化评估的许多局限性已经被反复指出，最关键的事实是，根据定义，它们不能考虑到非典型儿童解决问题、语言和沟通的不同方法。另一方面，对儿童行为的自然主义研究通过丰富的、多模态的情境活动分析，为自发发生的语言、认知和社会能力提供了令人信服的证据。这些研究提出了另一种将能力和技能概念化的方法。博士项目将致力于确定照顾者和儿童在日常成人与儿童互动中所使用的能力指标，并确定可用于开发补充和支持实践者工作的新工具的原则。该项目将采用融合方法，结合多种研究方法，如对现有和新数据的整体分析，捕获典型和非典型发育儿童的相互作用，调查确定从业者对现有评估的问题，并将使用获得的数据制定替代评估框架的指导方针。

Research question: What are the abilities of children with typical and atypical development thatemerge in naturalistic interactions and how can these inform the development of alternativeassessment frameworks?Background and rationale for the study:Assessments are a constant presence in the life of children with atypical development (AD), withconsequences in terms of provision of support, inclusion in mainstream schools, and evaluation oftheir developmental progress. However, many limitations of standardised assessments have beenrepeatedly pointed out, crucially the fact that by definition they cannot take into account atypicalchildren's different approaches to problem solving, language and communication. Naturalisticstudies of children's conduct on the other hand, provide compelling evidence of spontaneouslyoccurring linguistic, cognitive and social abilities through enriched, multimodal analyses of activitiesin-context. These studies propose an alternative approach to conceptualising competences and skills.The PhD project will be devoted to identifying enabling practices used by caregivers and children'sindicators of abilities occurring in everyday adult-child interactions and define principles which couldbe used to develop new instruments complementing and supporting the work of practitioners. Theproject will use a converging methods approach combining multiple research methods, such ascorpus analysis of existing and new data capturing interactions of both typically and atypicallydeveloping children, a survey identifying practitioners' problems with existing assessments, and willuse the data obtained to develop guidelines for an alternative assessment framework.