Jamaica Projects
- Using Drawings to Understand Jamaican Children’s Talking Experiences
- Recent evidence suggests that drawings offer SLPs an unbiased approach for working with typically-developing and disordered children across language contexts (Holliday et al., 2009; McCormack et al., 2010; McLeod et al., 2015)
- We explored the talking experiences of young children who speak more than one language on a daily basis.
- Recent evidence suggests that drawings offer SLPs an unbiased approach for working with typically-developing and disordered children across language contexts (Holliday et al., 2009; McCormack et al., 2010; McLeod et al., 2015)
- Characterizing Grammar Profiles Using Child and Adult Models
- Without specific knowledge of dual language profiles, dual language learners are at-risk for misdiagnosis.
- The purpose of this study is to investigate the appropriateness of standardized assessments of expressive language in Jamaican Creole (JC)-and English-speaking preschoolers.
- We sought to inform the interpretation of assessment results based on adult models from the same linguistic community.
- Using Acoustic Methods to Characterize Speech Productions
- We seek to understand and characterize the various productions of single words by Jamaican Creole (JC)-and English-speaking preschoolers.
- The purpose of this NIH-funded study is to build models of speech sound productions for this population and help with diagnostic accuracy.
- We use the Phon 3 software program and Praat functions for speech analysis of acoustic data.
- Intelligibility in Context Scale as an Assessment Tool
- The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS; McLeod, et al., 2012) is a validated speech screening tool that has been translated to Jamaican Creole (JC).
- We investigated the clinical utility of the ICS and ICS-JC for English and JC-speaking bilingual preschoolers.
- We address the need for research-based screening tools for understudied bilingual populations.