Internationalising Higher Education

There is a dearth of locally produced assessment and intervention tools which are culturally and linguistically appropriate in speech therapy clinics in Malaysia; nothing has been done on Malay and Chinese syntactic assessment tools. This poster will describe a bilateral sharing of ideas, involving information sharing across continents and disciplines in clinical linguistics, speech language therapy, psychology, institutions, and public and private domains in speech language therapy. The aim of this project has been the development of a prototype of Malay and Chinese syntactic assessment tools. A website has been developed to disseminate information about the project. Participating clinicians can download and upload survey forms. The website also provides access to focus groups on the products being developed. Training workshops have been conducted and anticipated outputs are in the form of a syntactic test kit complete with procedures on language elicitation and profiling, a grammatical description of Malay and Chinese languages, and various publications disseminating findings. This poster will discuss this sharing of ideas and results of the project.