"To my mind, two of the most important tasks for the profession of speech-language in this century are the development of assessments for use with multilingual children and children whose first language is not English and fostering clinicians’ awareness of them."This comment provides support for the work my colleagues and I have undertaken over the past 4 years.
Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
December 22, 2013
Importance of having assessments for use with multilingual children
A recent review of a paper I had submitted to an international journal began