VALIDATION OF STANDARDIZED INSTRUMENTS IN EVALUATING SPEECH-LANGUAGE DISORDERS: A CHALLENGE FOR CROSS-CULTURAL SETTINGS

Authors

  • Zahra Ibrahim

Abstract

Communication has a meaningful impact between clinician and client in order to comprehend each other's language for effective therapeutic recovery and health related outcomes1.Standardized tests are considered as one of the primary assessment tools used by a speech language pathologist to evaluate and diagnose child language impairment.
Test is administered upon the child where functional performance and scores reveals either the typically developing language skills or if an in-depth evaluation is required in any of the language domains3. Making use of the data and analyzing the child's expressive/receptive language skills that lags behind when compared to norm referenced data; if the child is par their chronological age or below their mental age.

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Published

2020-11-28

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Letter to the Editor

How to Cite

VALIDATION OF STANDARDIZED INSTRUMENTS IN EVALUATING SPEECH-LANGUAGE DISORDERS: A CHALLENGE FOR CROSS-CULTURAL SETTINGS. (2020). Pakistan Journal of Rehabilitation, 8(2), 03. https://ojs.zu.edu.pk/pjr/article/view/712