Diego Azañedo, Diego Chambergo-Michilot, Akram Hernández-Vásquez
Associations between chronic conditions and oral health services utilization in older Peruvian adults: a pooled analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2017
Epidemiology and health
purpose standardized normreferenced tests important aspect language assessment schoolage children study explored language test selection practices schoolbased speechlanguage pathologists slps working elementary school children suspected developmental language disorder specifically investigated tests commonly selected clinicians firstchoice followup tests factors impacted test selection decisions sources information used determine psychometric quality tests method schoolbased slps completed webbased questionnaire regarding use normreferenced language tests total 370 elementary school slps completed questionnaire results vast majority participants indicated omnibus language tests first choice test followup tests participants selected semantics tests especially singleword vocabulary tests significantly often tests pragmatics processing skills morphologysyntax participants identified multiple factors affecting test selection including availability familiarity psychometric features others although slps reported using databased subjective sources information judge psychometric quality tests substantial proportion reported relied subjective sources conclusions clinicians strong preference using omnibus language tests followup test selection appear align language difficulties associated developmental language disorder substantial use subjective information psychometric qualities tests suggests many slps may attend technical meanings terms validity reliability diagnostic accuracy results indicate need improvement evidencebased language assessment practices supplemental material httpsdoiorg1023641asha13022471