Accounting for dialect features. (AJSLP In Brief).(Brief Article)

Researchers have long indicated that the different dialects of a language play a role in the description of children's phonology, and they have urged speech-language pathologists to take dialect features into account when scoring phonological assessments.

If, for example, dialect features affect all or most members of a sound class, then scoring these dialect features as errors may shift the diagnosis from "typically developing" to "phonological disorder" or alter the severity category. Such scoring can also result in specific phonological patterns being ...

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