(1) Purpose. Will the tool assess one language and/or dialect, or be designed to compare
skills in different languages and dialects? Alternatively, will the tool assess a child's ability to …

The world is multilingual and multicultural. Many children move to different countries where
the majority language is not their first and/or are born into multilingual homes. Relocation …

Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children explores both multilingual and
multicultural aspects of children with speech sound disorders. The 30 chapters have been …

Background The speech and language therapy profession is required to provide services to
increasingly multilingual caseloads. Much international research has focused on the …

It goes without saying that our assessments of and interventions for children with speech
sound disorder rest on the reliability and validity of our transcriptions of their speech. An …

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in many areas now require skills in multilingual,
multidialectal phonological assessment. As the number of regional home languages or …

As SLPs increasingly assess and treat children from varying linguistic backgrounds,
knowledge of typical development must expand beyond descriptions of developmental …

For all children with speech sound disorders (SSD), receiving intervention is crucial for not
only improving intelligibility, but also for later academic success, because SSDs are linked to …

The linguist David Crystal once raised the question of whether or not a monolingual English-
speaking speech-language pathologist (SLP) would ever need to know something about …

This position paper is an aspirational document for individuals who strive for the
development of policies and best practices for multilingual and/or multicultural children with …