K Kohnert - Journal of communication disorders, 2010 - Elsevier
A clear understanding of how to best provide clinical serves to bilingual children with suspected or confirmed primary language impairment (PLI) is predicated on understanding …
Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It" blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students …
The assessment of oral language is now quite commonly done in pairs or groups, and there is a growing body of research which investigates the related issues (eg May, 2007). Writing …
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 …
Purpose Speech-language pathologists have both a professional and ethical responsibility to provide culturally competent services to dual language learners (DLLs). In this tutorial, we …
DVM Bishop - Current directions in psychological science, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Specific language impairment (SLI) is diagnosed when a child's language development is deficient for no obvious reason. For many years, there was a tendency to assume that SLI …
KL Snow - Early education and development, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Recent interest and investment in early childhood education as a means of promoting children's school readiness has prompted the need for clear definitions of school readiness …
EL Grigorenko - Journal of learning disabilities, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This article compares and contrasts the main features of dynamic testing and assessment (DT/A) and response to intervention (RTI). The comparison is carried out along the following …
Purpose This study was designed to investigate the frequency with which school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) used recommended practices when assessing the …