FW: AAVE and children

Thu Jan 8 16:28:34 UTC 2004

Hi Pam

Here are some refs you might find useful on African American children:

Agerton, E. P., & Moran, M. J. (1995). Effects of race and dialect of examiner on language samples elicited from southern African American preschoolers. Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 16(2), 25-30.

Craig, H. K., & Washington, J. A. (2000). An assessment battery for identifying language impairments in African American Children. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 43, 366-379.

Craig, H. K., Washington, J. A., & Thompson-Porter, C. (1998a). Average C-unit lengths in the discourse of African American children from low-income, urban homes. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 41, 433-444.

Craig, H. K., Washington, J. A., & Thompson-Porter, C. (1998b). Performances of young African-American children on two comprehension tasks. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 41, 445-457.

Fagundes, D. D., Haynes, W. O., Haak, N. J., & Moran, M. J. (1998). Task variability effects on the language test performance of Southern lower socioeconomic class African American and Caucasian five-year-olds. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 29, 148-157.

Klecan-Aker, J. S., & Caraway, T. H. (1997). A study of the relationship of storytelling ability and reading comprehension in fourth and sixth grade African-American children. European Journal of Disorders of Communication, 32(1), 109-125.

Qualls, C. D., & Harris, J. L. (1999). Effects of Familiarity on Idiom Comprehension in African American and European American Fifth Graders. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 30(2), 141-151.

Washington, J. A., Craig, H. K., & Kushmaul, A. J. (1998). Variable use of African American English across two language sampling contexts. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 41, 1115-1124.

and some more general ones on assessment of bilingual children especially re. language disorders:

Cline, T. (1993). Educational assessment of bilingual pupils: getting the context right. Educational and Child Psychology, 10(4), 59-68.

Cummins, J. (1984). Bilingualism and special education: issues in assessment and pedagogy. Clevedon:  Multilingual Matters.

Cummins, J. (2000). Language, power and pedagogy: bilingual children in the crossfire. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Erickson, J. G., & Iglesias, A. (1986). Assessment of communication disorders in non-English proficient children. In O. L. Taylor (Ed.), Nature of communication disorders in culturally and linguistically diverse populations . San Diego: College Hill Press.

Holm, A., Dodd, B., Stow, C., & Pert, S. (1999). Identification and differential diagnosis of phonological disorder in bilingual children. Language Testing, 16(3), 271-292.

Miller, N. (1984). Bilingualism and language disability: assessment and remediation. London: Croom Helm.

Peña, E., Quinn, R., & Iglesias, A. (1992). The application of dynamic methods to language assessment: A nonbiased procedure. Journal of Special Education 26, 3, 269-280.

Hope this is helpful! best wishes, Alison Crutchley 

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Dr Alison Crutchley 
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School of Music and Humanities 
University of Huddersfield 
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Pam Norton [mailto:pcnorton at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thu 08/01/2004 06:07 
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Subject: AAVE and children

	Hi -
	I'm preparing to do research on African American children who speak AAVE and assessment practices/dialectal differences awareness in speech/language pathologists.  I'm hoping someone can direct me to good sources on best practices in language (disorders) assessment for African American children, especially those who speak AAVE.  Also, any sources on linguistic bias in language assessment and/or incidence of language disorders in African American children.

	Thanks much,

	Pam Norton
	UCB/SFSU Jt. Doctoral Program in Special Ed

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