Kokotek Leslie E, Washington Karla N, Cunningham Barbara Jane, Karem Rachel Wright, Fletcher Brittany
University of Cincinnati, OH, USA.
New York University, New York City, USA.
Commun Disord Q. 2022 Nov;44(1):3-13. doi: 10.1177/15257401211068126. Epub 2021 Dec 31.
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.
“六项沟通结果聚焦量表”(FOCUS)是少数几个经过验证的与儿童沟通参与度相关的结果测量工具之一。对FOCUS量表进行进一步验证,可以解决目前用于评估学龄前儿童,尤其是多语言儿童的基于结果的有效测量工具匮乏的问题。本研究收集的数据来自讲牙买加克里奥尔语 - 英语的儿童代表性样本,将FOCUS量表的适用性扩展到更广泛的学龄前儿童群体,并将该量表的心理测量学证据扩展到多语言且研究较少的背景中。