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15 - Intelligent Testing of Underserved Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2012

By
R. Steve McCallum  and
Bruce A. Bracken
Edited by
James C. Kaufman
R. Steve McCallum
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Bruce A. Bracken
Affiliation:
The College of William and Mary
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
California State University, San Bernardino
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INTELLIGENT TESTING OF UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS

The imperative for nonverbal assessment in the United States is obvious and growing. According to U.S. Census data reported in 2000, more than 31 million people 5 years and older spoke a language other than English in the home and almost 2,000,000 had no English-speaking ability (U.S. Bureau of the Census). By 2005 the number of individuals who speak a language other than English in their homes had increased to nearly 60 million (approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population). In the United States, 12 individual states report that 20 percent or more of their respective populations speak a language other than English. California was the state that reported the largest percentage of non-English speakers (42.3 percent); Puerto Rico was the American territory reporting the largest incidence of non-English speakers (95.4 percent) (http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html).

Minority children and children from non-White racial or ethnic backgrounds comprise an increasingly larger percentage of public school children, particularly in many large metropolitan areas. For example, minority students comprise an overwhelming percentage of the school population in Miami (approximately 84 percent), Chicago (89 percent), and Houston (88 percent) (Bracken & McCallum, in press) Many of these minority children speak languages other than English, with the Limited English Proficient (LEP) population representing the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States.

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Intelligent Testing
Integrating Psychological Theory and Clinical Practice
 , pp. 193 - 219
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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