- About World Languages: Tagalog
An overview of the dialects, structure, and writing of Tagalog - Bilinguistics: Tagalog Speech Sounds
Information on Tagalog phonology for assistance in identifying speech differences vs. disorders - Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT)
A test designed to assess the languages of a bilingual or multilingual person with aphasia. The various versions in different languages are culturally and linguistically equivalent - Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS): Tagalog (pdf)
The Intelligibility in Context Scale is a quick parent report measure of children's intelligibility - Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised, with Follow-Up (M-CHAT)
Freely available and includes translations in Tagalog. - MAIN Story Tell and Story Retell Language Assessment in Tagalog
Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) - Phonology, Syntax, and Morphology in Tagalog
Created by Paul Schachter & Lawrence Reid, this guide details the historical background, speech sounds, sentence structures, and word forms in Tagalog - Sample Tagalog AAC
University of the Philippines student-created initial AAC sample board in Tagalog - Working with Interpreters to Analyze Language Samples in Other Languages
Download a list of questions SLPs can ask interpreters to help analyze children's language samples.
Research Articles
- ASHAWire: The Philippines Passes the 'Speech-Language Pathology Act'
- Bondoc, I. P., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., & Tanaka, N. (2017). Agrammatism in Tagalog: Voice and relativisation. Aphasiology, 32(5), 598–617.
- US AID: Philippines. (Local languages and literacy in the Philippines) Implications for early grade reading instruction and assessment.