Equity and Cultural-Linguistic Diversity

1312L - Research Symposium: Combining Languages in the Input to Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Friday, November 18, 2022

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM CT

Format: 1-Hour Seminar (In-Person)

Audience: Students, Public/Consumers, Related Professionals, Early Career Professionals (under 5 years)

Keywords: Bilingualism, cognition, developmental language disorder, assessment

Presenting Author(s)

Margarita Kaushanskaya

University of Wisconsin Madison
Leah Fabiano-Smith

University of Arizona

Best practices for diagnosis of DLD in bilingual children indicate use of both languages. However, we do not know how to best combine languages in the input to bilinguals. Our work examines how bilingual input shapes learning, with implications for assessment and treatment of bilingual children with DLD.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize common ways of combining languages during bilingual assessment
Assess experimental and correlational evidence for effects of bilingual input on learning and language outcomes in bilingual children
Construct specific hypotheses regarding how the different ways of combining languages would affect successful assessment and treatment of bilingual children with DLD