Academic Outcomes in Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder: A Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown that most English-speaking children with language difficulties show academic difficulties during their schooling. The present study aimed to describe the academic achievement of children speaking Spanish and Catalan with developmental language disorder (DLD) during their primary education and to predict their academic outcomes using several processing skills assessed at the beginning of their schooling. To this end, we followed 28 children during their schooling (6-12 years of age). Participants were divided into two groups, one with DLD (n = 14) and a control group (n = 14) paired by age, gender, socio-economic status (SES), family language (L1), and classroom. All participants were assessed through different processing skills with the Spanish version of the NE

SUBMITTER: Aguilar-Mediavilla E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6421289 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature