Professor Keun-ah Chun of Severance Hospital developed a tool for 'Child Social Language Test'
Oct 01, 2024
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In order for children to successfully perform social communication, social clues, and contextual identification, they must understand metaphorical idioms well. This tool was developed for the first time in Korea and accurately evaluates the ability to use idioms appropriate to the level of development of school-age children by reflecting the Korean socio-cultural situation in the inspection items.
The test consists of a total of 45 questions containing idiomatic and figurative expressions and 45 illustrations. The inspector shows the sentences and pictures to the child and reads the sentences one letter at a time. The child answers whether the picture represents the idiomatic and figurative meaning contained in the sentence.
Each question consists of ▶'consistent' in which the tolerant and figurative expressions coincide with the context of the situation in the picture, ▶'inconsistent' in which the tolerant and figurative expressions represent the sentence rather than the socially used meaning, and ▶'neutral' in which the situation itself is explained without tolerance and figurative meaning. Based on the scoring results, the level of social language literacy is classified into four categories: 'advanced', 'basic', 'immature', and 'limited'.
Professor Chun learned that there are no suitable tools to evaluate social language worldwide among studies that observe brain active areas responsible for social language in children with high-function autism spectrum disorder. The development of the test tool began with the work of deducing what children can understand among hundreds of idioms that are widely used in Korea. After that, he went through the process of finely drawing 'matched illustrations' that contain the meaning of idioms,'mismatched illustrations' that literally interpreted 'mismatched illustrations', and'neutral illustrations' that have nothing to do with idioms.
Professor Chun Keun-ah said, "C-SLT helps various experts, including pediatric psychiatrists, pediatricians, language rehabilitators, clinical psychologists, special teachers, and school counselors, understand children's social language development and detect problems early"It will add great value to the evaluation and intervention plan for children who are struggling with language development and social communication."
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