Practitioners involved in the development of educational programs and clinical services for
child learners of English as a second language (ESL) are challenged when they make …

Assessing and treating bilingual children with speech and language disorders is difficult
given the relative paucity of data on the speech and language skills of typically developing …

Evidence-based practice requires that clinical decisions be based on evidence from
rigorously controlled research studies. At this time, very few studies have directly examined …

This study used a single-case alternating treatments design to compare the effectiveness of
monolingual and bilingual clinical treatment approaches in teaching English vocabulary to a …

Basic research on bilingual development suggests several conclusions that can inform
clinical practice with children from bilingual environments. They include the following:(1) …

Purpose This study investigated the clinical effectiveness of monolingual versus bilingual
language intervention, the latter involving speech-language pathologist–parent …

Language Disorders in Bilingual Children and Adults, Third Edition, provides speech-
language pathologists, advanced students in communication disorders programs, and …

Children with developmental disabilities (DD) often need and sometimes opt to become
bilingual. The context for bilingual acquisition varies considerably and can impact outcomes …

If speech-language pathologists are to identify bilingual children In need of Intervention, It is
essential to understand the normal variations of bilingual acquisition and how it is the same …

Language skills in young bilingual children are highly varied as a result of the variability in
their language experiences, making it difficult for speech-language pathologists to …