Developing Minds Inc.

Speech and Language Dynamic Assessments

Dynamic Assessment are important when evaluating students who are not native speakers of Standard American English (SAE).

Cultural Linguistic Diversity

Speech- Language Pathology

Leselle Uwa

    • Students who are speakers of African American English come from all parts of the United States and beyond.

      Speakers of African America English (AAE)

      The importance of contrastive and non-contrastive features of AAE.

      Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the effects of training in Dynamic Assessment on the knowledge base and confidence levels of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who speak Standard American English (SAE), and their ability to effectively conduct non-biased assessments on students who speak African American English (AAE) after completing five training sessions.