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Peer reviewedCole, Patricia A.; Taylor, Orlando L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1990
Ten African-American children, aged five to six, who speak Black English Vernacular were administered three standard English articulation tests. Results showed that a failure to take the issue of dialect variation into account substantially increased the likelihood of misdiagnosing normally speaking African-American children as having articulation…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Black Dialects, Black Students, Diagnostic Tests
