Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six: Validation of Language Skills in the Jamaican Context.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Kokotek, Leslie E.; Washington, Karla N.; Cunningham, Barbara Jane; Wright Karem, Rachel; Fletcher, Brittany
- Source
- Communication Disorders Quarterly. Nov2022, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p3-13. 11p.
- Subject
- *SOCIAL participation
*STATISTICS
*HUMAN research subjects
*RESEARCH methodology evaluation
*COMMUNICATIVE competence
*RESEARCH methodology
*MULTILINGUALISM
*HEALTH outcome assessment
*INTERVIEWING
*MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques
*PSYCHOMETRICS
*LANGUAGE acquisition
*INFORMED consent (Medical law)
*PEARSON correlation (Statistics)
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*DIALECTS
*SCALE analysis (Psychology)
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*RESEARCH funding
*DATA analysis software
*DATA analysis
*STATISTICAL correlation
- Language
- ISSN
- 1525-7401
The Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (FOCUS) is one of a few validated outcome measures related to children's communicative participation. Additional validation of the FOCUS measure could address the paucity of validated outcomes-based measures available for assessing preschool-age children, particularly for those who are multilingual. The data collected for this study, with a representative sample of Jamaican Creole-English speaking children, extend the applicability of the FOCUS to a broader range of preschoolers and expand psychometric evidence for the FOCUS to a multilingual and understudied context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]