Rogayah A. Razak

The Malay Hearing in Noise Test

The Malay language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people in Malaysia, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau Islands, and parts of the coast of Borneo. It is an official language of Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore. In Malaysia, the Malay language, also known as Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Malaysia, is the national language of the country. This report summarizes the procedures for developing the hearing in noise test in Malay language.

12 C-LARSP: Developing a Chinese Grammatical Profile

Lixian Jin from Speech and Language Therapy has published a chapter with collaborators based on her PMI2 research project completed in 2010. This research uses the fundamental principles of assessing grammatical development of young children for clinical language profiling, which originated from the research developed by British clinical linguists and now used in many countries around the world which adopt the principle to develop this clinical linguistic tool for their native languages. This Chinese version is one of the 12 languages included in the first book of such a collection. Future volumes will publish more languages using this principle.

Preliminary Content Validity and Reliability of a Newly Developed Malay Preschool Language Assessment Tool

Abstract This article describes the development of the Malay Preschool Language Assessment Tool (MPLAT) designed to assess the language abilities of Malay preschool children between 4;0 to 6;11 years of age. The MPLAT is a prototype assessment tool that measures receptive, expressive use of language and early literacy skills. The rationale, construct validity, content validity, and early reliability evidence are presented. Potential items (217) were administered to 59 children and an item analysis was completed. Developmental analysis, test-retest and interexaminer reliability, and further content validity study was completed on another group of 42 children. The preliminary test-retest and interexaminer reliability coefficients were strong. Subtests and total test raw scores increased with age and all six subtests were correlated with each other and with test total. The MPLAT promises to be a valuable assessment tool for Malay children.