Assessment of bilingual children: What if testing both languages is not possible?

T Boerma, E Blom - Journal of communication disorders, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Language delays of bilingual children can arise from language impairment (LI) but
also from insufficient exposure to the target language. A reliable diagnosis of LI in bilingual …

Assessment of bilingual children for identification of language impairment: Current findings and implications for practice

LM Bedore, ED Peña - International Journal of Bilingual Education …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Children from bilingual backgrounds are sometimes overidentified with language
impairment (LI) because educators do not have appropriate developmental expectations. At …

Identifying language impairment in bilingual children in France and in Germany

L Tuller, C Hamann, S Chilla, S Ferré… - … journal of language …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background The detection of specific language impairment (SLI) in children growing up
bilingually presents particular challenges for clinicians. Non‐word repetition (NWR) and …

Utility of a language screening measure for predicting risk for language impairment in bilinguals

MJ Lugo-Neris, ED Peña, LM Bedore… - American Journal of …, 2015 - ASHA
Purpose This study evaluated the accuracy of an experimental version of the Bilingual
English Spanish Oral Screener (BESOS; Peña, Bedore, Iglesias, Gutiérrez-Clellen, & …

Which measures better discriminate language minority bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder? A study testing a combined protocol of …

P Bonifacci, E Atti, M Casamenti, B Piani… - Journal of Speech …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose This study aimed to assess a protocol for the evaluation of developmental
language disorder (DLD) in language minority bilingual children (LMBC). The specific aims …

Proposed diagnostic procedures for use in bilingual and cross-linguistic contexts

E Thordardottir - Assessing multilingual children: Disentangling …, 2015 - degruyter.com
COST Action IS0804 brought together researchers and clinicians from various countries in
Europe and several neighbouring countries (24 in total) with the common purpose of …

Identifying language disorder in bilingual children aged 2.5 years requires screening in both languages

L Nayeb, D Lagerberg, A Sarkadi, EK Salameh… - Acta …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Bilingual children are at risk of being overlooked for early identification of language
difficulties. We investigated the accuracy of four screening models for children aged 2.5. The …

Risk factors for language impairment in Swedish bilingual and monolingual children relative to severity

EK Salameh, U Nettelbladt, B Gullberg - Acta Paediatrica, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Aim: To explore potential risk factors for language impairment (LI) relative to degree of
severity in bilingual and monolingual children. Methods: Two groups of clinically assessed …

Using nonword repetition to identify language impairment in bilingual children: A meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy

JA Ortiz - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose Nonword repetition has been endorsed as a less biased method of assessment for
children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, but there are currently no …

Language impairment in bilingual children: State of the art 2017

T Marinis, S Armon-Lotem, G Pontikas - 2017 - kops.uni-konstanz.de
Several migration waves within the past two decades have led to an increase in the number
of children worldwide who start (pre) school in a language that is not their home language …