Background: British society is multicultural and multilingual, thus for many children English is
not their main or only language. Speech and language therapists are required to assess …

The oral language assessment of bilingual children is challenging. The assessment
practices and challenges faced by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in countries where …

Diagnosing specific language impairment (SLI) in monolingual children is a complex task,
with some controversy regarding criteria. Diagnosis of SLI in bilinguals is made more …

Background Significant progress has been made in the identification of language
impairment in children are bilingual. Bilingual children's vocabulary knowledge may be …

COST Action IS0804 brought together researchers and clinicians from various countries in
Europe and several neighbouring countries (24 in total) with the common purpose of …

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 …

Purpose Although language samples and standardized tests are regularly used in
assessment, few studies provide clinical guidance on how to synthesize information from …

Increased attention is being given to strategies for the least biased language assessment of
culturally and linguistically diverse children for whom English is a second language. One …

Certain pragmatic criteria were compared with traditionally employed surface-oriented
criteria for the diagnosis of language disorders in bilingual children. Subjects were 10 …

Abstract Language delays of bilingual children can arise from language impairment (LI) but
also from insufficient exposure to the target language. A reliable diagnosis of LI in bilingual …