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Full-text Versions

  • Ambreen, S., & To, C. K. S. (2022). Development of the Urdu speech assessment test. Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, 24(3), 138–145. [Link] <Full-text>

  • Ambreen, S., & To, C. K. S. (2021). Phonological development in Urdu-speaking children: A systematic review. Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, 64(11), 4213–4234. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00148. [Link] <Full-text>

  • Ambreen, S., Hamdani, S. Z., & Anwar, M. (2021). Speaking fundamental frequency of native Urdu speakers - A pilot study. Journal of Voice, 36(1), 23–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.03.016. [Link] <Full-text>

  • Hamdani, S. Z., & Ambreen, S. (2021). Data for narrative skills of Urdu-speaking preschoolers. Data in Brief, 34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.106737. [Link] 

  • Ambreen, S., Bashir, N., Tarar, S. A., & Kausar, R. (2020). Maximum phonation time in adults with normal voice. Rawal Medical Journal, 45(3). [Link] 

  • Ambreen, S., Bashir, N., Tarar, S. A., & Kausar, R. (2017). Acoustic analysis of normal voice patterns in Pakistan adults. Journal of Voice, 33(1), 49–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2017.09.003. [Link] <Full-text>

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OTHER RESOURCES

Blogs

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Helping Websites and Documents​​

 

 

IPA Chart and Font

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Font for Typing Urdu

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Professional Associations in Pakistan

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Software for speech analyses

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Urdu Assessments

​        Note. Please contact the authors directly to access these assessments.

  • Afreen et al. (2014) Action picture information test (APIT) [Link]

  • Shabbir & Zahra et al. (unpublished material) Urdu Word list. Centre for Clinical Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

  • Noveen et al. (2017) Test of Articulation and Phonology of Urdu (TAAPU) [Link]

  • Muzaffar et al. (2019) Urdu Articulation Screening Test (UAST) [Link]

  • Hamdani et al. (unpublished material) Cross-linguistic Non-word Repetition Tasks (NWR-Urdu). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK SAR. [Link]

  • Hamdani et al. (unpublished material) Sentence Repetition Tasks (SRT-Urdu). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK SAR. [Link]

  • Hamdani et al. (unpublished material) Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLT-Urdu). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK SAR. [Link]

  • Hamdani et al. (unpublished material) The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN-Urdu). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK SAR. [Link]

  • Butt et al. (2021) Urdu receptive language scale (URLS) [Link]

  • Ambreen & To (unpublished material) Urdu Speech Assessment Test (USAT). The University of Hong Kong, HK SAR. [Link]

  • Ambreen & To (unpublished material) Index of Phonetic Complexity (IPC-Ur). The University of Hong Kong, HK SAR.

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Thesis        

  • Anam Yousaf (2016) Urdu oral narrative skills development in school-age children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Arooj Karim (2016) Speech sound errors and literacy skills in children with orofacial clefts (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Saboor Hamdani (2016). Urdu oral narrative skills development in preschoolers (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Huma Khalid (2016) Comparison of personal and fictional narrative skills of school-age children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Rohma Mehak (2016) Utterance length, sentence structure complexity, and dysfluencies among school-age children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CWNS) (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Nayab Zahra (2016) Acquisition of Urdu consonants in typically developing children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Haniya Shabbir (2016) Phonological processes of Urdu language in typically developing children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Saira Ambreen (2016) Acoustic analysis of normal voice patterns in adults (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Iqra Saeed (2016) Social predictors of pragmatics skills and conversational maxims in children (MS Thesis) [Link]​

  • Maryam Kamran (2016) Social communication emotional regulation transactional support (SCERTS) with functional ASDs (MS Thesis) [Link]​

  • Amber Ghizal (2017) Urdu fictional narrative and writing skills in school children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Farah Bashir (2017) Urdu fictional narrative and reading skills in school children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Khadija Abbasi (2017) Phonological processes of Urdu language in typically developing children aged 5;01 to 6;12 years (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Zebaish Ali (2017) Phonological processes of Urdu language in typically developing children aged between 5;01-6;12 years (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Rabia Mumtaz (2017) Acquisition of Urdu consonants in typically developing 2–3 years old children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Javaria Altaf (2017) Acquisition of Urdu pronouns in typically developing children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Hiba Maqsood (2017) Acquisition of Urdu nouns in typically developing children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Tahira Sarwar (2017) Acquisition of Urdu verbs in typically developing children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Humaira Nazir (2017) Acquisition of Urdu postpositions in typically developing children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Sumbal Zafar (2017) Acquisition of conjunctions in typically developing children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Maira Farooq (2017) Measuring the mean length of utterances in typically developing children of 3;0-4;0 years (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Zunaira Zulqarnain (2017) Lexical diversity in typically developing children (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Munazzah Akhtar (2017) Mean length of utterance of typically developing children of age 6;01-7;12 years (MS Thesis) [Link]

  • Sana Haidry (2017) Assessment of dyslexia in the Urdu language (PhD Thesis) [Link]

  • Mahnoor Anwar (2019) Acoustic analysis of normal voice patterns in young Pakistani children (MS Thesis)

  • Yousra Haroon (2019) Acquisition of Urdu adverbs in typically developing children of 2 to 3 years (MS Thesis) [author contact]

  • Maria Ashfaq (2019) Acquisition of postpositions in typically developing children of 2 to 3 years (MS Thesis) [author contact]

  • Uswa Bashir (2019) Acquisition of pronouns in individuals with Down Syndrome (MS Thesis) [author contact]

  • Qurat ul Ain Tahir (2019) Acquisition of verbs in individuals with Down Syndrome (MS Thesis) [author contact]

  • Nida Zahid (2019) Acquisition of adjectives in children with Down Syndrome (MS Thesis) [author contact]

  • Mavra Ramzan (2019) Lexical Density and Lexical Diversity in Individuals with Down Syndrome Having Mental Age 4 to 8 years (MS Thesis) [author contact]

  • Sehar Khalid (2019) Acquisition of Urdu Conjunctions in Individuals with Down Syndrome (MS Thesis) [author contact]

  • Qurat ul Ain Malik (2019) Acquisition of Urdu nouns in typically developing children of 2 to 3 years (MS Thesis) [author contact]

  • Insiya Bhallo (2021) Developing language-specific screening tools: Assessing phonological skills in Urdu-English bilingual children  (MS Thesis) [Link]

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Journal Papers on Urdu Acquisition

  • Farhat Khan (1984) Phonological development of Urdu-speaking children [Link]

  • Afreen et al. (2014) Development of action picture information test (APIT) [Link]

  • Pervaiz et al. (2014) Development of a checklist for the assessment of pragmatic language impairment [Link]

  • Sultana et al. (2014) Speech intelligibility in hearing aid users with and without auditory training [Link]

  • Humera Sharif (2015) Urdu consonant acquisition by children [Link]

  • Noveen et al. (2017) Development of a test for articulation and phonological disorders in Urdu-speaking children [Link]

  • Noveen et al. (2017) Establishment of validity of a test for articulation and phonological disorders among bilingual children in Punjab and Baluchistan [Link]

  • Qadeer et al. (2017) Effect of hearing impairment on receptive language development among children between 2–5 years [Link]

  • Noveen et al. (2019) Validity and reliability of TAAPU for assessment of articulation and phonological disorders in Urdu language: A study in Pakistan [Link]

  • Majid et al. (2019) Comparison of articulation among children using digital and non-digital hearing aids [Link]

  • Butt et al. (2021) Development and validation of Urdu receptive language scale (URLS) [Link]

  • Hafeez et al. (2022) Receptive vocabulary, memory span, and speech articulation in Pakistani children with developmental language disorders [Link]

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Journal Papers on Prevalence

  • Tahira et al. (2016) Prevalence of stammering in school-going children between the ages of 8 to 12 years [Link]

  • Butt et al. (2016) Frequency of stuttering and its common symptoms among children with speech disorders [Link]

  • Aslam et al. (2020) Prevalence of speech sound disorders among primary school children [Link]

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