What Predicts Individual Response to Language Treatment in Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder?
Purpose: For bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), language treatment response is the degree to which an individual child progresses in both of their languages. Understanding what predicts language treatment response for an individual child can help clinicians plan treatment...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 226 - 234 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Apr2023
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