What predicts individual response to language treatment in bilingual children with developmental language disorder?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

For bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), language treatment response is the degree to which an individual child progresses in both of their languages. Understanding what predicts language treatment response for an individual child can help clinicians plan treatment more effectively.

Methods

This study is a retrospective analysis of data from Ebert et al. (2014). Participants included 32 school-age Spanish-English bilingual children with DLD who completed an intensive language treatment program. Gains in Spanish and English were measured using raw test scores in each language. Predictors of language gains include language, cognitive, and demographic variables. To examine which predictors were significant, we calculated partial correlations be

SUBMITTER: Ebert KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10171084 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature