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Direct linkJudith J. Carta; Dale Walker; Kathryn M. Bigelow; Charles R. Greenwood; Alana G. Schnitz; Bridging the Word Gap Research Network Leadership Team – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Numerous studies emphasize the critical impact of early communicative interactions on children's language, cognitive, and social development; academic performance; and life outcomes. Early research linking disparities in language interaction quality and quantity to socioeconomic factors sometimes identified these population differences as…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Equal Education, Intervention, Educational Research
Duarte, Beatriz A.; Greybeck, Barbara; Simpson, Cynthia G. – Advances in Special Education, 2013
The evaluation of minority children for special education by law should be nondiscriminatory. To be in compliance with federal mandates such as the Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA), No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and Public Law 94-142, minority children who are also English language learners (ELLs) should be assessed in their native…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Learning Disabilities, Minority Group Students, Special Education
Jacobson, Peggy; Livert, David – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study compared the use of English past tense in a group of Spanish-English bilingual children with language impairment (BLI) to younger groups of bilinguals with typical and atypical language development reported in an earlier study. Ten children with BLI enrolled in 3rd-6th grade participated. Children supplied 12 regular, 12 irregular, and…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Elementary School Students
Download full textProctor, Adele; And Others – 1984
A study was undertaken in an effort to develop techniques for monolingual speech pathologists in the Boston public schools to assess whether language behavior of Cape Verdean immigrants is due to language learning disabilities or simply to language differences. The following three questions were addressed: (1) What are some of the differences…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creoles, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Fraternali, Orsola; And Others – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
Reports on two studies designed to prove three hypotheses: (1) five-year-olds can successfully learn a second language (L2); (2) early L2 learning has a positive effect on the development of children's cognitive and first language linguistic abilities; and (3) early L2 learning assists socio-economically disadvantaged children in overcoming…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
PDF pending restorationLynch, Joanne – 1992
The second year of the International Academy for Bilingual Education and Bicultural Studies program in New York City is described. The program provided instructional and support services to 40 Chinese- and English-speaking students in one pre-kindergarten and one kindergarten class at P.S. 1 in community school district 2. Half of the students…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Chinese, Cultural Awareness
