Clinical bilingual evaluations: Exploring ways to overcome­­ barriers in the direct assessment of both languages when there is a suspicion of language disorder

Purpose: Speech-language pathologists report barriers to conducting culturally appropriate bilingual language evaluations when there is a suspicion of language disorder. One barrier is that there may not be personnel available to directly assess language development in a language other than English. The purpose of this clinical focus is to demonstrate the potential for speech-language pathologists to incorporate direct assessment data from a language they cannot speak fluently when there are barriers to a comprehensive bilingual evaluation. First, we review the clinical markers of bilingual language disorder. Second, we review the evidence from audiology that uses closed-set tasks to evaluate languages the clinician cannot speak fluently. Last, we explore potential methods for applying such practices in clinical language evaluations when there is a suspicion of a language disorder.

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Work Title Clinical bilingual evaluations: Exploring ways to overcome­­ barriers in the direct assessment of both languages when there is a suspicion of language disorder
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  1. Tiana M Cowan
  2. Kasie O Galley
  3. Carol A Miller
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  1. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
Publication Date April 11, 2023
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  1. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_PERSP-22-00097
Deposited May 22, 2024

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