PMID- 26189842
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160908
LR  - 20161021
IS  - 1460-6984 (Electronic)
IS  - 1368-2822 (Linking)
VI  - 50
IP  - 6
DP  - 2015 Nov-Dec
TI  - Examining the quality of phonological representations in Anindilyakwa children in 
      Australia.
PG  - 842-8
LID - 10.1111/1460-6984.12174 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: In attempting to evaluate an intervention programme designed to 
      improve English literacy outcomes in children in a remote indigenous community in 
      Australia, the need for valid and culturally appropriate measures of the factors 
      likely to impact on literacy development became apparent. One factor considered 
      likely to be of importance was the precision of the children's phonological 
      representations. AIMS: To develop a measure of phonological representations that 
      was culturally relevant for Anindilyakwa children and to evaluate its reliability 
      and concurrent validity against English measures that are known to be predictive 
      of literacy outcomes. METHODS & PROCEDURES: Starting from the Quality of 
      Phonological Representations test (QPR), the authors developed an Anindilyakwa 
      Quality of Phonological Representations test (AQPR) and examined its reliability 
      and concurrent validity. OUTCOMES & RESULTS: The AQPR was found to have 
      acceptable reliability and to correlate significantly with three well-established 
      measures of phonological awareness and phonics in English. CONCLUSIONS: The AQPR 
      would thus seem an appropriate screening test for use by teachers to identify 
      Anindilyakwa children in need of interventions to improve phonological 
      representations before exposing them to an English literacy programme for which 
      they may not yet be ready. The process involved in its development could be used 
      by others working with indigenous students.
CI  - (c) 2015 Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
FAU - Fletcher, Janet
AU  - Fletcher J
AD  - School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 
      Australia.
FAU - Hogben, John
AU  - Hogben J
AD  - School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 
      Australia.
FAU - Neilson, Roslyn
AU  - Neilson R
AD  - Language, Speech and Literacy Services, Jamberoo, NSW, Australia.
FAU - Lalara, Rhoda Dugurruru
AU  - Lalara RD
AD  - Groote Eylandt Linguistics.
FAU - Reid, Corinne
AU  - Reid C
AD  - School of Psychology & Exercise Science, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, 
      Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20150719
PL  - United States
TA  - Int J Lang Commun Disord
JT  - International journal of language & communication disorders
JID - 9803709
SB  - IM
MH  - *Awareness
MH  - Child
MH  - Concept Formation
MH  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mass Screening
MH  - *Multilingualism
MH  - *Phonation
MH  - *Phonetics
MH  - Population Groups/*psychology
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - *Speech Production Measurement
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - culturally relevant assessment
OT  - phonological representations, literacy, indigenous students, early intervention
EDAT- 2015/07/21 06:00
MHDA- 2016/09/09 06:00
CRDT- 2015/07/21 06:00
PHST- 2014/08/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/02/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/07/21 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/07/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/09/09 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1111/1460-6984.12174 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2015 Nov-Dec;50(6):842-8. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12174. 
      Epub 2015 Jul 19.