Executive functions in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment – issues for speech-language pathology
The clinical assessment of language impairment (LI) in bilingual children imposes challenges for speech-language pathology services. Assessment tools standardized for monolingual populations increase the risk of misinterpreting bilingualism as language impairment. This Perspective article summarizes...
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| description | The clinical assessment of language impairment (LI) in bilingual children imposes challenges for speech-language pathology services. Assessment tools standardized for monolingual populations increase the risk of misinterpreting bilingualism as language impairment. This Perspective article summarizes recent studies on the assessment of bilingual LI and presents new results on including nonlinguistic measures of executive functions in the diagnostic assessment. Executive functions shows clinical utility as less subjected to language use and exposure than linguistic measures. A possible bilingual advantage, and consequences for speech-language pathology practices and future research are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cce9b5f6478e42fc989f184be3b1b9902022-12-21T18:48:43ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-07-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.01074144673Executive functions in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment – issues for speech-language pathologyOlof eSandgren0Ketty eHolmström1Lund UniversityLund UniversityThe clinical assessment of language impairment (LI) in bilingual children imposes challenges for speech-language pathology services. Assessment tools standardized for monolingual populations increase the risk of misinterpreting bilingualism as language impairment. This Perspective article summarizes recent studies on the assessment of bilingual LI and presents new results on including nonlinguistic measures of executive functions in the diagnostic assessment. Executive functions shows clinical utility as less subjected to language use and exposure than linguistic measures. A possible bilingual advantage, and consequences for speech-language pathology practices and future research are discussed.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01074/fullSpeech-Language Pathologybilingualismexecutive functionsLanguage impairmentbilingual advantage |
| spellingShingle | Olof eSandgren Ketty eHolmström Executive functions in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment – issues for speech-language pathology Frontiers in Psychology Speech-Language Pathology bilingualism executive functions Language impairment bilingual advantage |
| title | Executive functions in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment – issues for speech-language pathology |
| title_full | Executive functions in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment – issues for speech-language pathology |
| title_fullStr | Executive functions in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment – issues for speech-language pathology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Executive functions in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment – issues for speech-language pathology |
| title_short | Executive functions in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment – issues for speech-language pathology |
| title_sort | executive functions in mono and bilingual children with language impairment issues for speech language pathology |
| topic | Speech-Language Pathology bilingualism executive functions Language impairment bilingual advantage |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01074/full |
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