Language assessment of Polish-English bilingual children by speech and language therapists who do not speak Polish: A feasibility study of a novel scoring schema for Sentence-Repetition-Tasks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The challenge of assessing all languages of multilingual children by clinicians who do not speak the children's heritage languages is a global problem amplified by the increase in recent migration as well as a lack of available assessment tools.

Aim

To evaluate the feasibility of using a novel scoring schema to assist English-speaking speech and language therapists (SLTs) practising in Ireland in scoring Polish Sentence-Repetition (SRep) Tasks in collaboration with Polish language teachers, and to profile and compare children's language performance across their languages using this scoring schema.

Methods and procedures

LITMUS SRep in English and Polish was completed by 15 typically-developing children (aged 5-8 years) and 12 children with suspected Develop

SUBMITTER: Lally S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11839225 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature