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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Publication Date | April 11, 2023 |
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Deposited | May 22, 2024 |
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