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Transcribing Child Language Across Dialects of English

Most clinicians learned to transcribe samples for children who speak General American English (GAE), yet many clients speak dialects that differ from GAE. When a child doesn't speak GAE, clinicians also often do not know when a child's production of a word, inflection, or phrase should be considered appropriate or inappropriate for a child's dialect. This talk will present transcription and coding guidelines to use with children who speak a variety of English dialects that differ from GAE.

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Transcribing Child Language Across Dialects of English

Most clinicians learned to transcribe samples for children who speak General American English (GAE), yet many clients speak dialects that differ from GAE. When a child doesn't speak GAE, clinicians also often do not know when a child's production of a word, inflection, or phrase should be considered appropriate or inappropriate for a child's dialect. This talk will present transcription and coding guidelines to use with children who speak a variety of English dialects that differ from GAE.

Presenters

  • Janna B. Oetting

    Ph.D., CCC-SLP

    Janna Oetting is Associate Vice President of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Allied Fields in the Office of Research and Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on the crosslinguistic study of child language development and disorders and the development and validity of culturally and linguistically appropriate language assessments for children.

Learning Objectives

Transcribe utterances children produce within language samples using dialect-informed codes
Understand the role of zero forms and the different types of zero forms (phonetically silent vs. null) speakers produce for effective communication
Explain linguistic biases and diagnostic weaknesses that surface when coding for error or ungrammaticality

Agenda

Agenda

10 minutesTranscribe utterances children produce within language samples using dialect-informed codes
10 minutesUnderstand the role of zero forms and the different types of zero forms (phonetically silent vs. null) speakers produce for effective communication
10 minutesExplain linguistic biases and diagnostic weaknesses that surface when coding for error or ungrammaticality

Disclosures

Disclosures

Speakers - FinancialJanna Oetting has received an honorarium from Bright Ideas Media. Janna Oetting receives a salary from Louisiana State University to conduct research and teach on topics covered in this session as well as external grant funds from NIH, NSF, and the La Department of Health to conduct research related to the topics covered in this session.
Speakers - NonfinancialJanna Oetting has no non-financial relationships to disclose.
Course - ContentJanna has a free lab manual that is used to transcribe and code language samples. Janna will be referencing this manual and anyone can download it from the LSU COMD D4 Child Language Lab.
Course - Financial Support & In KindThis course is being sponsored by SLP Toolkit and CLaSSLab.

ASHA

ASHA

This course is offered for 0.05 ASHA CEUs, Intermediate Level, Professional Area

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Transcribing Child Language Across Dialects of English
$10.00
Many clinicians are trained to transcribe samples in General American English (GAE), but many clients speak different English dialects. This course provides transcription and coding guidelines to help clinicians accurately assess and interpret speech from children who speak diverse English dialects, distinguishing dialectal differences from disorders. Includes access to the recorded course and optional ASHA reporting.