School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, San Diego State University, CA.
J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2023 Dec 11;66(12):4756-4770. doi: 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00047. Epub 2023 Aug 31.
This review article offers a narrativized synthesis of my research over the past 15+ years with Vietnamese-speaking children based on data collected from individual bilingual and monolingual children in preschool and elementary schools.
I begin with a positionality narrative to describe who I am in relation to the research conducted. I provide an overview of the research program including tool building and how my research with bilinguals in the United States led me to international collaborations in Vietnam.
I present main findings from this body of work in three areas: typical bilingual development, reading performance in Vietnam, and characteristics of developmental language disorder in the Vietnamese language. Implications within each area are discussed in terms of clinical application and future research directions. Practitioners and researchers alike can freely access the Vietnamese assessment tools created and validated to date from our website, https://vietslp.sdsu.edu/.
This research overview aims to offer clinicians and researchers the sociocultural context for understanding the relevance of this body of research. It also serves as an invitation for new generations of scholars, particularly scholars of color, to see their own unique positionings and perspectives as valuable and necessary for scientific innovation and progress.
本文通过对过去 15 年以上对越南裔儿童进行的研究进行叙述性综合，介绍了我个人的研究成果。这些研究基于对学前和小学的双语和单语个体儿童数据的收集。
我首先进行了定位叙述，以描述我在研究中的角色。我提供了研究计划的概述，包括工具的构建，以及我在美国对双语者的研究如何促使我在越南开展国际合作。
我在三个领域介绍了这项工作的主要发现：典型的双语发展、越南的阅读表现，以及越南语发展性语言障碍的特点。每个领域的影响都从临床应用和未来研究方向进行了讨论。从业者和研究人员都可以从我们的网站 https://vietslp.sdsu.edu/ 自由访问迄今为止创建和验证的越南语评估工具。
本研究综述旨在为临床医生和研究人员提供理解这部分研究相关性的社会文化背景。它还邀请新一代学者，特别是有色人种学者，看到他们自己独特的定位和观点对于科学创新和进步的价值和必要性。
