San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA and.
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Int J Speech Lang Pathol. 2020 Feb;22(1):106-116. doi: 10.1080/17549507.2019.1598492. Epub 2019 May 2.
: The purpose of this tutorial is to inform assessment, treatment and research approaches that are uniquely tailored to bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD), a communication disorder characterised by weaknesses in language production and comprehension.: A review is presented on what is known about joint language activation in adult and child bilinguals. This supports a discussion of the bilingual profile, which includes cross-language interactions and associations with broader cognitive functions. This is followed by consideration on how these bilingual phenomena may manifest in the context of relatively weak language skills, as is the case with DLD.: In addition to exploring the bilingual profile, guidelines are provided for incorporating cognates - a type of translation equivalent with distinct overlap in form and meaning that enhances cross-linguistic interactions - in language assessment, therapy and research.: The field of speech-language pathology would benefit from more tools specifically designed for bilingual children. Already, there is interest in clinical applications of cognates, as they may support transfer and generalisation across languages. Future research is needed to better explore this potential in child bilinguals, particularly those with DLD. Such work would help establish a developmental bilingual language processing model with clinical relevance.
本教程旨在为有和没有发育性语言障碍 (DLD) 的双语儿童提供独特的评估、治疗和研究方法，DLD 是一种以语言产生和理解能力薄弱为特征的语言障碍。
回顾了成人和儿童双语者共同语言激活的已知情况。这支持了对双语者特征的讨论，包括跨语言的相互作用和与更广泛的认知功能的关联。接下来考虑了这些双语现象在相对较弱的语言技能背景下的表现，就像 DLD 一样。
除了探索双语者特征外，还为在语言评估、治疗和研究中纳入同源词（一种具有相似形式和含义的翻译等价物，增强了跨语言的相互作用）提供了指导方针。
言语病理学领域将受益于专门为双语儿童设计的更多工具。同源词在临床应用中的应用已经引起了人们的兴趣，因为它们可以支持语言之间的转移和泛化。未来需要进一步的研究来更好地探索双语儿童，特别是那些有 DLD 的儿童的这种潜力。这项工作将有助于建立具有临床相关性的发展性双语语言处理模型。
