Conversation skills Assessment Tool — ChAT
Open access copy of the measure can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343163788_ChAT_measure
OPEN ACCESS to the paper describing the development of the tool can be found here: The development of the conversation skills assessment tool — Yurgos Politis, Ian Clemente, Zihyun Lim, Connie Sung, 2023 (sagepub.com)
Rationale for the development of ChAT:
To provide a measure of a person’s conversation skills ability and gauge whether they have achieved any personal growth.
The authors do not wish to perpetuate an ableist social construct of what is a “good” conversation and they do not suggest that conversation training is necessary specifically for people with communication and/or socialization difficulties.
Rather, they hope that the tool will be adopted more broadly to examine conversation skills of both neurotypical and neurodivergent people and hopefully give them a better understanding of how to communicate more effectively with others, and thus make them more aware and accepting of differing conversational styles.
Potential audience:
The authors envisage that the Tool could be used with children at an early age as an exemplar of the elements of a conversational interaction they would need to pay attention to.
ChAT could also be useful for people who are learning English as a foreign language and for people with conversation/communication difficulties.
ChAT was developed as part of my Marie Curie project with the ASSISTID programme that was co-funded by RESPECT and the European Commission.
Details of that project can be found here:
