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Cattani, Allegra; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Farag, Rafalla; Krott, Andrea; Arreckx, Frédérique; Dennis, Ian; Floccia, Caroline – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2014
Background: Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition. The recommendations of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) state that bilingual children should be assessed in both the languages known by the children. However,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
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Everitt, Andrea; Hannaford, Philip; Conti-Ramsden, Gina – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: Identifying 3-4-year-olds who are most at risk of persisting language difficulties, and possibly specific language impairment (SLI), is difficult due to the natural variation of language in young children. In older children, markers for SLI have been identified that differentiate between children with and without SLI. It is not known…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Developmental Delays, Expressive Language, Language Impairments
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Lonigan, Christopher J.; Farver, JoAnn M.; Nakamoto, Jonathan; Eppe, Stefanie – Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study utilized latent growth-curve analyses to determine if the early literacy skills of children who were Spanish-speaking language-minority (LM) followed a similar quantitative growth profile over a preschool year as that of a group of children from a comparable socioeconomic (SES) background but who were not LM. Participants, who ranged in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Child Development, Comparative Analysis