The Misdiagnosis of Speech Sound Disorders in Spanish-speaking Preschoolers Acquiring African American English

学习非裔美国英语的西班牙语学龄前儿童语音障碍的误诊

• 批准号: 9760513
• 负责人: Chelsea Privette
• 金额: $ 4.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-17 至 2021-06-16
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9760513
• 关键词: Address; Administrator; African American; American; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; Arizona; Articulation; Characteristics; Child; Clinical; Communities; Computer software; Country; Data; Data Collection; Development; Diagnostic; Disease; Education; Educational Curriculum; Evaluation; Exposure to; Fellowship; Goals; Health; Hispanic Americans; Language; Latino; Linguistics; Litigation; Mainstreaming; Measures; Mentorship; Minority; Morphology; North Carolina; Pathologist; Pattern; Performance; Phonetics; Population; Production; Protocols documentation; Rehabilitation therapy; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Sampling; Schools; Service delivery model; Services; Special Education; Speech; Speech Disorders; Speech Sound; Speech-Language Pathology; Standardization; Students; Testing; Theoretical model; Training; Variant; accurate diagnosis; base; evidence base; expectation; peer; phonology; predictive modeling; pressure; prevent; programs; public education; school district; standard measure; statistics; tool; training opportunity; wasting

Project Summary/Abstract According to the the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504, every child is entitled to a free and appropriate public education; however, that is not always the case for many African American and Latino children. Children from under-represented backgrounds are often misdiagnosed with speech sound disorders due to limited research and training in linguistic diversity (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2017). When children are misdiagnosed with speech sound disorders, they receive therapy services they do not need. As a result, linguistically diverse children are pulled out of their classrooms and miss general education curriculum. Not only does it waste taxpayers’ dollars, it results in the under-education of a large segment of our student population. Misdiagnosis of speech sound disorders occurs when speech-language pathologists do not have the right evaluation tools to accurately diagnose children who speak a dialect of English that is unfamiliar to them. Therefore, this research will (1) develop a theoretical model that predicts the language change that occurs when different dialects come in contact with one another and (2) document the dialect of English that emerges when African American and Latino children live and go to school together in order to develop accurate diagnostic criteria for speakers of this dialect. Speech samples from African American and Latino children will be transcribed and analyzed for production patterns. By comparing these children’s speech production to that of their peers who speak Standard American English on current standard measures of speech sound ability, I will not only be able to characterize typical speech and disordered speech in speakers of this dialect, but develop the diagnostic criteria that speech-language pathologists need to make accurate diagnoses and prevent children from missing out on the education they deserve. This fellowship includes mentorship and training opportunities with an interdisciplinary team of researchers across the country, including the two data collection regions - Tucson, Arizona and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. The training goals for this fellowship include training in statistics and phonetics software programs as well as training in the development of diagnostic assessment protocols.

项目摘要/摘要 根据1973年第504条的《康复法》，每个孩子都有权获得免费和适当的 公共教育；但是，对于许多非裔美国人和拉丁裔儿童来说，情况并非总是如此。孩子们 从代表性不足的背景中，由于有限 语言多样性的研究与培训（美国语言听力协会，2017年）。什么时候 儿童被语音疾病诊断出来，他们获得了不需要的治疗服务。作为 结果，语言上多元化的儿童被带出他们的教室，而错过了通识教育课程。 它不仅浪费了纳税人的美元，还导致大部分学生的教育不足 人口。当语音语言病理学家没有，言语障碍的误诊就会发生 正确的评估工具，可以准确诊断出讲英语方言的儿童，这些方言不熟悉 他们。因此，这项研究将（1）建立一个理论模型，以预测语言变化 当不同的方言相互接触时就会发生，并且（2）记录英语方言 当非裔美国人和拉丁裔儿童一起生活和上学以发展时出现 该方言的演讲者的准确诊断标准。来自非裔美国人和拉丁裔的演讲样本 儿童将进行转录和分析以获取生产模式。通过比较这些孩子的演讲 以当前的标准衡量标准测量的同龄人的生产 语音能力，我不仅能够表征典型的语音和演讲者的言语无序的语音 该方言，但要制定语音语言病理学家需要准确的诊断标准 诊断并防止儿童错过应有的教育。该奖学金包括 全国各地的研究人员跨学科团队的识别和培训机会， 包括两个数据收集区 - 亚利桑那州图森和北卡罗来纳州的罗利·德勒姆。培训 该奖学金的目标包括统计和语音软件程序的培训以及培训 制定诊断评估方案。