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What are some assessments and therapeutic Interventions which should be…
What are some assessments and therapeutic Interventions which should be used to evaluate Dual Language Children?
Language
Impairment
characteristics
They can come close to their unaffected peers for some language abilities by the end of elementary school.
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Difficulties and protracted development of language extend into the school-age years and possibly never completely resolve over time
Language
Delay
characteristics
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Slower producing word combinations,
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Assessment
Issues with Assessment
- Although it is widely acknowledged that use of monolingual norm-referenced testing material with dual language children can lead to biased assessment--that is, can underestimate dual language children's linguistic competence and learning capabilities--it is nevertheless still a common practice
- It is important for clinician's working with diverse linguistic and cultural communities to understand the issues that arise when monolingual standardized tests are used with dual language children
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Bilingual Input Factors
- Simultaneous bilingual children sometimes take longer to master certain aspects of morphosyntax than monolingual children
- A bilingual child's dominant language is usally the language they hear and use more often
- Children who have been learning two languages from birth cannot be expected to perform according to monolingual norms on tests
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Bilingual Approach
focusing on the skills and linguistic elements that can be shared across the two languages
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Meta-cognitive and meta-linguistic strategies for enhancing language learning, perception of the content-form relationships, and cross-language awareness
Linguistic elements that overlap between the two languages (overlapping sounds, grammar rules, and cognate words).
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