Abstract Introduction: The Multilingual-Multicultural Affairs Committee of the International
Association of Communication Disorders (IALP) conducted a survey of diagnostic criteria for …

The language profiles of monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder
(DLD) and typically developing multilingual children can overlap, presenting similar paths …

Abstract Purposeof Review Researchers have devoted extensive time and effort into
developing and analyzing culturally and linguistically responsive language assessment …

Within predominantly English-speaking countries such as the US, UK, Canada, New
Zealand, and Australia, there are a significant number of people who speak languages other …

Purpose A long-standing issue in identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in
multilingual children is differentiating between effects of language experience and genuine …

Purpose: Multilingual children are disproportionately represented on speech pathology
caseloads, in part due to the limited ability of traditional language assessments to accurately …

Background There is no agreed terminology for describing childhood language problems. In
this special issue Reilly et al. and Bishop review the history of the most widely used …

It is well known that to obtain a fair representation of language skills in multilingual people,
all their languages must be assessed (Bedore and Peña 2008). However, due to a lack of …

Speech-language pathologists play important roles in supporting people to be competent
communicators in the languages of their communities. However, with over 7000 languages …

Although most children learn language relatively quickly, as many as 10 per cent of them are
slow to start speaking and are said to have developmental language disorder (DLD) …