NIH R01 · 2025
Project Summary/Abstract Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) demonstrate deficits in language compared to unaffected peers from similar language-learning environments. Conventional assessment methods for DLD capture a child’s current skill level in one language; in the U.S., such assessments are available only in English or Spanish. These methods fail sequential bilingual children, who speak a minority language at home and are subsequently exposed to English, because they confound language-learning ability with prior language- learning experience. Assessments that index language-learning ability are sorely needed, especially for sequential bilingual children whose home…
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