NIH R01 · 2024
Project Summary More than 8.5 million children in the USA speak Spanish at home (U.S. Census Table S1601, 2020) with about a half million experiencing Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), a disorder in language learning and use that cannot be attributed to limited language exposure, autism, intellectual disability, hearing impairment, etc. (Norbury et al., 2016; Tomblin et al., 1996). One key challenge in serving bilingual children with DLD is the mismatch between the language(s) they speak and the availability of Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) who can provide services in those languages. While it seems self-evident that a monolingual child should be treated in their first language,…
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