Tailoring Grammatical Test Items in English According to Language Experience for the Classification of Developmental Language Disorder in Bilinguals
Testing a bilingual child in both of their languages remains the gold standard for diagnosing DLD. However, our results support the indexing of developmental expectations to measures of L2 experience when testing is constrained to English.
Authors
- Amy Pratt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8878-0755)
- Elizabeth D. Peña (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6119-7658)
- Lisa M. Bedore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1973-3939)
- Michelle N. Ramos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3606-4463)
Institutions
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of Cincinnati (US)
- Temple University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_jslhr-24-00606
- Primary Topic
- Language Development and Disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00