Purpose: This study attempts to discriminate developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilinguals using only the child's second language (L2), Eng...

Last post I compared the BESA English morphosyntax for 4-6;11 year olds with the upward extension, the BESA-ME, that is designed for children 7 to 11;11. This time, let’s compare BESA-ME Span…

Purpose: This study investigated how word characteristics (frequency, cognate status, acquisition source, translation equivalence) influence voca...

Purpose: Functional language proficiency is presented as a conceptual framework that builds upon cultural–linguistic assets in bilingually develo...

Purpose: This study compared English grammatical performance of bilingual school-age children who spoke either Spanish or Vietnamese at home, foc...

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH

As SLPs we often turn to dynamic assessment to determine if a child has a true language disorder or if their language performance is a lack of experience with the kinds of items a test targets or w…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to gather evidence about the efficacy of performance feedback for improving school-based spee...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to gather evidence about the efficacy of performance feedback for improving school-based spee...

Purpose: The current study examines bilingual children's development of Spanish and English morphosyntax structures over the period of 1 year. Id...

David Geier and his father Mark Geier have a long track record of misrepresenting the science on vaccine safety.

Trump’s campaign produced campaign materials in Spanish to reach more voters. Now that he’s president, his White House is going English-only.

Factor structure and longitudinal changes in bilinguals’ oral narratives production: role of language exposure, language-domain proficiency, and transfer - Volume 46

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore the lived experiences of Asian American speech-language pathologists (SLPs) during their graduat...

While their boss takes a sledgehammer to federal agencies, SpaceX and Tesla are earning big money from government contracts, writes Io Dodds

There is a limited amount of time to oppose personnel actions. Time is short.

A Study of Semantics In a previous study, we looked at whether grammatical testing of bilingual kids in English might give us information that could be useful for diagnostic decision making. The an…

There is a report that today an EO paused all federal grants and loans. There is a lot of confusion about what this means and how it will affect science funding. I can’t begin to guess and it…