Purpose: Multilingual children are disproportionately represented on speech pathology
caseloads, in part due to the limited ability of traditional language assessments to accurately …

Questionnaires documenting children's bilingual experience have been used frequently in
research on language and cognitive development. However, there has been little …

Background: Lack of agreement about criteria and terminology for children's language
problems affects access to services as well as hindering research and practice. We report …

Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children need to master at least one language (spoken or
signed) to reach their full potential. Providing access to a natural sign language supports this …

Delayed or impaired language development is a common developmental concern, yet there
is little agreement about the criteria used to identify and classify language impairments in …

Background Lack of agreement about criteria and terminology for children's language
problems affects access to services as well as hindering research and practice. We report …

One of the defining characteristics of bilingual language development is variability, in terms
of individual children's outcomes in their two (or more) languages and in terms of children's …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

OBJECTIVE: To examine at 7 years the language abilities of children, the salience of early
life factors and language scores as predictors of language outcome, and co-occurring …

Bilinguals purportedly outperform monolinguals in non-verbal tasks of cognitive control (the
'bilingual advantage'). The most common explanation is that managing two languages …