Can dynamic assessment identify language disorder in multilingual children? Clinical applications from a systematic review

E Hunt, C Nang, S Meldrum, E Armstrong - Language, Speech, and Hearing …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: Multilingual children are disproportionately represented on speech pathology
caseloads, in part due to the limited ability of traditional language assessments to accurately …

Cultural and linguistic adaptations of early language interventions: Recommendations for advancing research and practice

LM Cycyk, S De Anda, H Moore, L Huerta - American Journal of Speech …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose Speech-language pathologists are responsible for providing culturally and
linguistically responsive early language intervention services for legal, ethical, and …

Using a monolingual screening test for assessing bilingual children

C Altman, E Harel, N Meir, P Iluz-Cohen… - Clinical linguistics & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Bilingual language development is different from monolingual language development. The
lack of appropriate assessment tools geared to the bilingual population has led to inaccurate …

Exploring assumptions of the bilingual delay in children with and without developmental language disorder

ED Peña, LM Bedore, AG Vargas - Journal of speech, language, and hearing …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Bilingual children are both over-and under-identified with developmental language
disorder (DLD). We propose that this may be a function of monolingual approaches that fail …

Narrative production in Mandarin-speaking children: Effects of language ability and elicitation method

L Sheng, H Shi, D Wang, Y Hao, L Zheng - Journal of Speech, Language …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose We compared the narrative production in Mandarin-speaking children at risk (AR)
for developmental language disorder (DLD) and typically developing (TD) controls to …

What influences speech-language pathologists' use of different types of language assessments for elementary school–age children?

D Denman, R Cordier, JH Kim, N Munro… - Language, Speech, and …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose This study reports on data from a survey of speech-language pathologists'(SLPs)
language assessment practices for elementary school–age children. The objective was to …

Transcribing multilingual children's and adults' speech

K Margetson, S McLeod, S Verdon… - Clinical Linguistics & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) face challenges in transcription and diagnosis of
speech sound disorders (SSD) in multilingual children due to ambient language influences …

Profiling bilingual children: Using monolingual assessment to inform diagnosis

K Rose, S Armon-Lotem, C Altman - Language, Speech, and Hearing …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: Diagnostic tools developed for monolinguals are frequently used for bilingual
linguistic assessment. The absence of evaluation criteria for using monolingual norms for …

Ecosystemic clinical assessment of linguistic diversity: Greek-dominant speech

E Babatsouli - Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2024 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose: Diversity considerations are of paramount significance in the clinical assessment
and treatment of speech disorders in bilingual children and adults who speak a less …

Diagnosing speech sound disorder in bilingual Vietnamese-English-speaking children: Are English-only assessments sufficient?

K Margetson, S McLeod, S Verdon - Multilingual Acquisition and …, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
Multilingual children suspected of having speech sound disorders (SSD) are often only
assessed in English due to challenges facing speech-language pathologists (SLPs) such as …