Danyang Wang, Alexander Choi-Tucci, Anita Mendez-Perez, Ronald B Gillam, Lisa M Bedore, Elizabeth D Peña
PURPOSE: The identification of developmental language disorder (DLD) is challenging for clinicians who assess bilinguals. This paper introduces a protocol-based approach, the Bilingual Multidimensional Ability Scale (B-MAS), for expert raters to identify DLD in bilinguals. METHOD: Three bilingual speech-language pathologists (SLPs) reviewed 166 Spanish-English bilingual children's profiles, which included performance on direct (morphosyntax, semantics, and narrative tasks) and indirect (parent/teacher survey) measures in both languages...
March 20, 2024: International Journal of Speech-language Pathology