Transcribing Child Language Across Dialects of English

SLP

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

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

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial	Janna 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 - Nonfinancial	Janna Oetting has no non-financial relationships to disclose.
Course - Content	Janna 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 Kind	This course is being sponsored by SLP Toolkit and CLaSSLab.

ASHA

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