Development of a Quebec French Version of the Children's Communication Checklist - 2 (CCC-2): Normalisation and Metric Equivalence.

The assessment of language pragmatics is of prime importance for differential diagnosis between language disorders and pervasive developmental disorders, both in speech therapy and child psychiatry. Indeed language pragmatics can provide discriminating insights that help properly identify the etiology of problems, and thus guide the child to appropriate resources. There are however few tools for assessing pragmatics and none are standardized in Quebec French language. To fill this gap a research team from Laval University undertook the validation in standard Quebec French language of the Children's Communication Checklist-2 (CCC-2, Bishop, 2006), a well-recognized evaluation tool of pragmatics with well-established metrological qualities. In the early stages of validation, the tool was translated, adapted, and then various analyses demonstrated the conceptual equivalence of the construct being measured between the American (source culture) and Quebec French culture (target culture) (Vezina, SamsonMorasse, Gauthier-Desgagne, Sylvester & Fossard, 2011). This study is the normalization of the Quebec French adaptation of the CCC-2 with a sample of 80 young French Quebecers with a language disorder. We applied the validation methodology used by the author of the CCC at the time of its creation in 1998. The normative data that was collected was subjected to various quantitative analyses to evaluate the metric equivalence of the Quebec French adaptation of the CCC-2 with the American version of the tool. The results confirm that the adaptation of the CCC-2 satisfactorily retains the metrological qualities of the source instrument. Furthermore, this study allows the use of standards in the Quebec French population.