Language Assessment of Bilingual Children: A Survey Study.
There is an increasing number of bilingual children in the United States. The purpose of this study was to identify the current practices of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who work with bilingual children. This study included electronic surveys from 230 school-based SLPs who work w...
| Published in: | Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 144 - 168 |
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University of Toronto Press
Feb2026
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