Professional practices and opinions about services available to bilingual children with developmental disabilities: An international study

Highlights • Professionals believed children with disabilities are capable of learning a new language. • Children with disabilities had less access to services for second language learners. • Children with disabilities were often exposed to, assessed in, and treated in one language. • Child-developm...

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Published inJournal of communication disorders Vol. 63; pp. 47 - 62
Main Authors Marinova-Todd, Stefka H, Colozzo, Paola, Mirenda, Pat, Stahl, Hillary, Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth, Parkington, Karisa, Cain, Kate, Scherba de Valenzuela, Julia, Segers, Eliane, MacLeod, Andrea A.N, Genesee, Fred
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2016
Subjects
Adult
Bilingualism
Child
Developmental disabilities
Developmental Disabilities - psychology
Female
Humans
Internationality
Internet
Language Therapy - methods
Male
Middle Aged
Minority Groups - psychology
Multilingualism
Preschoolers
Professional Practice
Psychiatry
Schoolaged children
Service delivery
Speech-Language Pathology - education
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
Service delivery
Surveys
Preschoolers
Schoolaged children
Bilingualism
Developmental disabilities
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Summary:Highlights • Professionals believed children with disabilities are capable of learning a new language. • Children with disabilities had less access to services for second language learners. • Children with disabilities were often exposed to, assessed in, and treated in one language. • Child-development professionals generally disagreed with these practices.
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ISSN:0021-9924
1873-7994
DOI:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2016.05.004