A continuously challenging issue in the field of speech–language pathology is accurately
identifying and diagnosing a language disorder in school-aged (pre-kindergarten through …

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

Purpose: Diagnostic tools developed for monolinguals are frequently used for bilingual
linguistic assessment. The absence of evaluation criteria for using monolingual norms for …

As the population of US school children becomes more diverse, speech-language
pathologists increasingly will face the challenge of accurately determining if bilingual …

Purpose: Speech-language pathologists report barriers to conducting culturally appropriate
bilingual language evaluations when there is a suspicion of language disorder. One barrier …

Volume 1 in this series, Issues in the Asessment of Bilinguals, contained a number of studies
that argued for changes in the way in which bilingual children and adults are assessed …

Solutions for the Assessment of Bilinguals presents innovative solutions for the evaluation of
language abilities and proficiency in multilingual speakers–and by extension, the evaluation …

Speech-language pathologists are frequently required to assess culturally and linguistically
diverse children. Achieving culturally sensitive, valid, and clinically feasible assessment of …

Children from bilingual backgrounds are sometimes overidentified with language
impairment (LI) because educators do not have appropriate developmental expectations. At …

This book discusses key issues surrounding the evaluation of language abilities and
proficiency in multilingual speakers. It brings together researchers working on bilingual and …