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

Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through
monolingual norms, as if fair conclusions were possible in the absence of fair comparison. In …

OBJECTIVE: The main objective of the present study was to examine THE EXPRESSIVE
LANGUAGE SKILLS and obtain a prevalence estimate of expressive language …

Standardized language assessments such as the Clinical Evaluation of Language
Fundamentals Pre-school 2 United Kingdom (CELF Preschool 2 UK) are often used in …

Background The phonological and morphosyntactic structures of English and Mandarin
contrast maximally and an increasing number of bilinguals speak these two languages …

Purpose Research shows that monolingual children with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) have a
higher incidence of cognitive-linguistic deficits, but it is not clear whether bilingual preschool …

Background: Assessment of oral language skills is challenging in multilingual environments.
With language policies promoting increased use of English and reduction of dialectal …

The story-retelling abilities of 25 English-dominant bilingual children with non-syndromic
cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) were compared with those of typically developing (TD) children …

Researchers suggest that monolingual children with clefts of the lip and/or palate (CL/P) that
are not attributable to genetic syndromes are at risk of poor communication outcomes. The …

Objective: To investigate the early reading abilities, and related cognitive-linguistic
processes, in bilingual children with nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P), and to …