The aim of this study was to determine whether measures of lexical diversity (LD) can be
used to assess general lexical knowledge. This study focused on 30 sequential …

The Latino/a population of the United States continues to increase dramatically;
consequently, educators face the challenge of how best to provide educational services for …

In considering achievement difficulties of language minority students, it is important to
understand basic concepts about second language acquisition, what it means to be …

Speech-language pathologists are becoming increasingly involved in issues of bilingual
education, other language and dialect learning, and other facets of learning for non …

John W. Oller, Jr. University of New Mexico... man is not just a creature of accident, chained
to and formed by the particular cave in which he is born.... No real teacher can doubt that his …

Historically and currently, limited English proficient (LEP) children have been placed in
special education programs, not because they presented clearly established learning …

This study was designed to explore a model of communicative competence (Abbeduto &
Nuccio, 1989) and identify whether its components could (a) predict pragmatic language …

Bilingual children with speech and language difficulties are an under-researched group. The
present paper intends to map out the field and contextualize findings from four years of …

Children with learning disabilities were compared to their normally achieving peers on
various discourse errors measured by clinical discourse analysis (CDA)(Damico, 1980). A …

Speech-language pathologists are challenged by the intricacy of assessing and diagnosing
communication disorders in bilingual populations. This paper discusses some obstacles …