ArticleAmerican journal of speech-language pathology2015
Utility of a Language Screening Measure for Predicting Risk for Language Impairment in Bilinguals.
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- Exploring Assumptions of the Bilingual Delay in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Predictors of Item Accuracy on theInternational journal of bilingual education and bilingualism · 2021Article
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- The Contribution of Bilingualism, Parental Education, and School Characteristics to Performance on the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals: Fourth Edition, Swedish.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Changes in English Past Tense Use by Bilingual School-Age Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2018Article
- Understanding Disorder Within Variation: Production of English Grammatical Forms by English Language Learners.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2018Article
- Cross-Linguistic Cognate Production in Spanish-English Bilingual Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2018Article
- Conceptual Scoring and Classification Accuracy of Vocabulary Testing in Bilingual Children.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2018Article
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purposeThis study evaluated the accuracy of an experimental version of the Bilingual English Spanish Oral Screener (BESOS; Peña, Bedore, Iglesias, Gutiérrez-Clellen, & Goldstein, 2008) for predicting the long-term risk for language impairment (LI) for a matched group of preschool-aged Spanish-English bilingual children with and without LI.
methodA total of 1,029 Spanish-English bilingual children completed the BESOS before entering kindergarten. A subset of 167 participants completed a follow-up language evaluation in 1st grade. Twenty-one of these children were identified as having LI and were matched to a group of 21 typically developing peers from the larger sample. A series of discriminant analyses were used to determine the combination of scores on the BESOS that most accurately predicted 2 years later which children presented with and without LI.
resultsThe linear combination of the semantics and morphosyntax scores in the best language resulted in predictive sensitivity of 95.2% and predictive specificity of 71.4%, with an overall accuracy of 81% for predicting risk for LI.
conclusionA bilingual language screener administered before kindergarten can be useful for predicting risk for LI in bilingual children in 1st grade.
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