Considerations of dialect on the identification of speech sound disorder in Vietnamese-speaking children

CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: Diagnostic decision-making is influenced by dialectal variation in children's speech, so speech and language therapists need to compare standard and dialectal productions when undertaking assessments, analysis and diagnostic decision-making.WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS: What is already known on the subject Most speech assessments use the standard form of a dialect as the correct production. The standard dialect is used for diagnosis of SSD and identification of intervention targets. What this paper adds to the existing knowledge This paper examines five research studies of Vietnamese to identify ways to consider dialect in speech and language therapy assessment and analysis. Vietnamese provides a complex environment for this examination since there are numerous Vietnamese dialects and they differ according to consonants, vowels and tones. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? Speech and language therapists are encouraged to add column(s) to their assessment score sheet that includes the dialectal variants spoken by adults and to report the PCC-S and PCC-D.PMID:38105629 | DOI:10.1111/1460-6984.12992
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research