Episode 30: Distinguishing difference from disorder in childhood speech and language disorders in multilingual children with Karla Washington

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Karla Washington, PhD
Associate Professor and Director PedLLS Lab
The University of Cincinnati

Special Guest: Karla Washington

• ​Bio

 
Karla’s Lab: Pediatric Language Literacy and Speech Outcomes Lab

• UC Directory
• Instagram
• Twitter

 
Mentioned:

• Sharynne McLeod
• Sarah Verdon
• Yvan Rose
• Tara McAllister
• Catherine Crowley
• Hubert Devonish
• Carol Westby
• Anna Sosa
• Toby Macrae
• Devon House Jamaica

           
Resources:

• International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech
• LEADERSproject
• Marion Blank question hierarchy
• The state of school-based bilingual assessment: actual practice versus recommended guidelines
• International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, Children and Youth Version

Recommended Reading:

• Anansi Stories
  • https://www.amazon.com/s?
  • k=anansi+and+the+moss+covered+rock&crid=QBBX91LIH5L9&sprefix=anansi+and+the+moss%2Caps%2C145&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_19 
  • https://www.amazon.com/s?k=anansi+and+the+talking+melon&crid=LIQTA18VEVSB&sprefix=Anansi+and+the+%2Caps%2C159&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_15
  • https://www.amazon.com/s?k=anansi+goes+fishing&crid=119825YYTOY7H&sprefix=Anansi+goes+%2Caps%2C143&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_12

 

• Berenstain Bears
  
• Nancy Drew
  
• Hardy Boys

 
SeeHearSpeak Resources and Jamaican Creole Language Project
 
Intelligibility in Context Scale (JC translation, 2014) [speech, online resource]
https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/ics
 
Validation of the Intelligibility in Context Scale in the Jamaican Context (2017) [typical speech: functional intelligibility and transcription based intelligibility, publication]
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2016_AJSLP-15-0103
*first study to use audio administration of the ICS
*first study to include parent inter-rater and intra-rater reliability for the ICS
 
 
Automated detection of similarities and differences in Jamaican children’s speech (2017) [typical speech, publication]
https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.5014954 (abstract)
https://asa.scitation.org/doi/am-pdf/10.1121/2.0000982 (paper)
 
Using drawings to understand Jamaican children’s talking experiences (2018) [talking experiences in typical and disordered groups, ASHA award]
https://www.asha.org/Students/SRTA-Award-Recipients/
 
Index of Productive Syntax for Jamaican Preschoolers (2019) [typical language: morphosyntax, publication]
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2018_LSHSS-18-0072
 
Characterizing bilingual speech sound production in Jamaican Creole and English-speaking preschoolers (2019-2021) [typical and disordered speech: sound production and production variability, NIH research grant]
https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R21-DC018170-01A1
 
Sensitivity and Specificity of the Intelligibility in Context Scale (2020) [typical and disordered speech, publication]
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DVATII7DD23TTH7VJFXW/full?target=10.1080/02699206.2020.1766574
 
Variability in speech sound production in Jamaican preschoolers (2020) [typical speech, publication preprint]
https://osf.io/uzqf4/
 
Narrative competence in bilingual Jamaican Creole and English-speaking preschoolers [typical narratives: comprehension and production, forthcoming publication]

• https://www.leadersproject.org/2015/12/04/slam-bunny-goes-to-school-cards-jamaica/ (Jamaican Creole story pictures and comprehension questions)
• https://www.leadersproject.org/2015/03/18/slam-dog-comes-home-school-aged-language-assessment-measure/ (English story pictures and comprehension questions)

  
Current Student Projects
Appropriateness of standardized assessment for bilingual Jamaican Creole- and English-speaking preschoolers: Application of adult models (2020) [language, dissertation research – Mrs. Rachel Wright Karem]
 
Language transfer and cross-linguistic effects for Jamaican Creole and English [language, dissertation research – Mrs. Rachel Wright Karem]
 
Functional communication and speech sound production in bilingual Jamaican Creole and English-speaking preschoolers (pre and post- COVID-19) [functional  in typical and disordered groups, dissertation research – Mrs. Leslie Kokotek]
 
Speech production variability in bilingual Jamaican Creole and English-speaking preschoolers: Acoustic models to distinguish difference and disorder [typical and disordered groups, dissertation research – Miss Michelle León]
 
Characterizing speech variability in monolingual vs bilingual speech [typical groups – MA research experience – Chloe Kaplan and Ellington Muse]

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