Discriminating Children With Language Impairment Among English-Language Learners From Diverse First-Language Backgrounds.

Purpose: In this study, the authors sought to determine whether a combination of English-language measures and a parent questionnaire on first-language development could adequately discriminate between English-language learners (ELLs) with and without language impairment (LI) when children had diver...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 971 - 982
Main Authors:	Paradis, Johanne, Schneider, Phyllis, Duncan, Tamara Sorenson, Oetting, Janna, Bedore, Lisa
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jun2013
Subjects:	Canada Cultural pluralism Psychological tests Case-control method Children Language disorder diagnosis English as a foreign language Probability theory Questionnaires Speech evaluation T-test (Statistics) U-statistics Multilingualism in children Effect sizes (Statistics) Descriptive statistics
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