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

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 …

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental
disorders. The influences of DLD on language development have been delineated in detail …

In the rating scales of major international language tests, as well as in automated evaluation
systems (eg e-rater), a positive relationship is often claimed between lexical diversity …

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

Purpose Recent research suggests that nonword repetition (NWR) and sentence repetition
(SR) tasks can be used to discriminate between children with SLI and their typically …

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and
state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and …

Code-switching is a common phenomenon that bilinguals engage in, including bilingual
children. While many researchers have analyzed code-switching behaviors to better …

Purpose Although mean length of utterance (MLU) is a useful benchmark in studies of
children with specific language impairment (SLI), some empirical and interpretive issues are …

Purpose Conceptual and methodological confounds occur when non (sense) word
repetition tasks are administered to speakers who do not have the target speech sounds in …