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

This article evaluatively reviews the literature on dynamic testing, a collection of testing
procedures designed to quantify not only the products or even the processes of learning but …

The purpose of this study was to identify a set of measures that would discriminate 31
predominantly Spanish-speaking children with normal language (NL children) from 31 …

This is the first book to present a practical, problem-solving approach and hands-on tools
and techniques for assessing English-language learners and culturally diverse students in K …

This article examines the question: Do lexical, syntactic, fluency, and discourse measures of
oral language collected under narrative conditions predict reading achievement both within …

The problems with norm-referenced measures have been well documented (Brice, 2002;
Washington & Craig, 1992; Wilson, Wilson, & Coleman, 2000). Perhaps the most familiar of …

This study examined the performance of preschool children from culturally and linguistically
diverse backgrounds, both typically developing and with low language ability, on a word …

Purpose This study was designed to investigate the frequency with which school-based
speech-language pathologists (SLPs) used recommended practices when assessing the …

Background: British society is multicultural and multilingual, thus for many children English is
not their main or only language. Speech and language therapists are required to assess …

Dynamic assessment (DA) has been advocated as an alternative and/or supplemental
approach to traditional standardized testing with children who are culturally and linguistically …