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Pratt, Amy S.; Adams, Ashley M.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2022
We explore the classification accuracy of a parent and teacher report measure, the Inventory to Assess Language Knowledge (ITALK), to screen for developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual children. Participants were 120 Spanish-English bilingual children with typical development (TD) and 19 bilingual children with DLD, ranging in age from…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Screening Tests, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments
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Gibson, Todd A.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
The purpose of the current study was to explore the influence of language experience on the presence of the receptive-expressive gap. Each of 778 Spanish-English bilingual children screened pre-kindergarten in Utah and Texas were assigned to one of five language experience groups, ranging from functionally monolingual to balanced bilingual.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Semantics
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Bedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Summers, Connie L.; Boerger, Karin M.; Resendiz, Maria D.; Greene, Kai; Bohman, Thomas M.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine if different language measures resulted in the same classifications of language dominance and proficiency for a group of bilingual pre-kindergarteners and kindergarteners. Data were analyzed for 1029 Spanish-English bilingual pre-kindergarteners who spanned the full range of bilingual language…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Semantics, Monolingualism, Language Proficiency