The ASQ-SE measures a broader range of social emotional skills than the FOCUS; however, the FOCUS items measure communicative interactions in social contexts as well as changes in frustration, behaviour, and confidence.
Nevertheless, while talking about knowledge, the general proficiency model "is also more orientated towards modelling the process of language use than toward understanding underlying competence" (Spolsky, 1985, p.186), implying that performance over a singular test is rarely able to measure underlying communicative competence.
Since the FOCUS primarily measures improved communicative participation, it was not expected to correlate with any of the speech and language measures individually.
The All Aspects of Health Literacy Scale (AAHLS) is another recently developed tool, which aims to measure functional, communicative and critical health literacy.
The secondary outcome measured the communicative behaviour of residents serving in labour and delivery rooms using sections related to communication of the observational checklist developed by Al-Galaa study in Egypt by Sholkamy et al 14.
The results show that the FOCUS is able to measure changes in communicative competence after an average of 9 hours of speech language therapy.
Are money issues culturally specific and is it possible to outline a set of sociable variables to measure communicative values of money representations in BRICS cultures?
The same result was achieved with a new measure, the communicative activity log or CAL, a questionnaire targeting everyday language and communication activities, which was given to the patients themselves and to independent raters (see Appendix).
Section 2 focused on communication activities and consisted of six subsections: (a) Communicative modes, (b) Communicative functions – expressive, (c) Communicative functions – social, (d) Communicative functions – receptive, (e) Communicative effectiveness, and (f) Personal factors.
The 'Communication Strategies' domain of the Dutch 35-item version of CPHI will be used to measure Communication (coping behavior in communicative situations) and consists of three subscales: 'Maladaptive Behavior'; 'Verbal Strategies' and 'Non-verbal Strategies' [ 68].
