Methods of Diagnosing Speech Sound Disorders in Multilingual Children.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Identification of speech sound disorder (SSD) in children who are multilingual is challenging for many speech-language pathologists (SLPs). This may be due to a lack of clinical resources to accurately identify SSD in multilingual children as easily as for monolingual children. The purpose of this article is to describe features of multilingual speech acquisition, identify evidence-based resources for the differential diagnosis of SSD in speakers of understudied language paradigms, and demonstrate how culturally responsive practices can be achieved in different linguistic contexts.

Method

Examples of different approaches used to inform accurate diagnosis of SSD in 2- to 8-year-old multilingual children are described. The approaches used included (a) considering adult

SUBMITTER: Washington KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12303607 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature