Each year, approximately 60,000 children of refugee background are resettled in Western
countries. This paper reviews the effects of the refugee experience on cognitive functioning …

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 landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a
disorder that is more prevalent than autism. Children with specific language impairment …

Second language learners often produce language forms resembling those of children with
Specific Language Impairment (SLI). At present, professionals working in language …

Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom integrates knowledge and practice from the
fields of disability studies and special education to provide readers with a comprehensive …

Abstract Many children in North America and around the world grow up exposed to two
languages from an early age. Parents of bilingual infants and toddlers have important …

Adult Spanish speakers generally know which form a determiner preceding a noun should
have even if the noun is not in their lexicon, because Spanish demonstrates high …

Background Bilingual children are under‐referred due to an ostensible expectation that they
lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition. The recommendations of the …

Measures of productivity and sentence organization are useful metrics for quantifying
language development and language impairments in monolingual and bilingual children. It …

Purpose The purpose of this research forum article is to provide an overview of typical and
atypical development of English as a second language (L2) and to present strategies for …