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Identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children: A case study tutorial.
Hamdani, Saboor; Chan, Angel; Kan, Rachel; Chiat, Shula; Gagarina, Natalia; Haman, Ewa; Luniewska, Magdalena; Polisenská, Kamila; Armon-Lotem, Sharon.
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  • Hamdani S; Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
  • Chan A; Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
  • Kan R; Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
  • Chiat S; Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
  • Gagarina N; Peking University Research Centre in Chinese Linguistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
  • Haman E; Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
  • Luniewska M; City, University of London, London, UK.
  • Polisenská K; Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany.
  • Armon-Lotem S; Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Int J Speech Lang Pathol ; : 1-15, 2024 May 20.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38764397
ABSTRACT

PURPOSE:

A long-standing issue in identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children is differentiating between effects of language experience and genuine impairment when clinicians often lack suitable norm-referenced assessments. In this tutorial we demonstrate, via a case study, that it is feasible to identify DLD in a multilingual child using the CATALISE diagnostic criteria, Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) assessment tools, and telepractice.

METHOD:

This tutorial features a case study of one 6-year-old Urdu-Cantonese multilingual ethnic minority child, and seven age- and grade-matched multilinguals. They were tested via Zoom using Urdu versions of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN), the Crosslinguistic Lexical Task (LITMUS-CLT), the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test (LITMUS-CL-NWR), and the Sentence Repetition Task (LITMUS-SRep).

RESULT:

The child scored significantly lower in the LITMUS tests compared to her peers in her best/first language of Urdu. Together with the presence of negative functional impact and poor prognostic features, and absence of associated biomedical conditions, the findings suggest this participant could be identified as having DLD using the CATALISE diagnostic criteria.

CONCLUSION:

The result demonstrates the promise of this approach to collect reference data and identify DLD in multilingual children. The online LITMUS battery has the potential to support identification of multilingual DLD in any target language.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Int J Speech Lang Pathol Asunto de la revista: PATOLOGIA DA FALA E LINGUAGEM Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Hong Kong Pais de publicación: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Int J Speech Lang Pathol Asunto de la revista: PATOLOGIA DA FALA E LINGUAGEM Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Hong Kong Pais de publicación: Reino Unido