Linguistic criteria for diagnosing Turkish children with SLI

[Kelley Sacco]

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From:          info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
To:            <katrin.lindner at germanistik.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject:       Re: Linguistic criteria for  diagnosing Turkish children
with SLI
Date:          Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:40:33 -0500

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>in Germany preschools for children with SLI are taking in more and
>more bilingual children who learn German as their second language.
>In order to find out whether these children also have a problem with
>their first language we ask native speakers for an evaluation of
>children's linguistic skills. Unfortunately, most of these native
>speakers - the majority is studying linguistics - have not (yet) had
>any experience in doing diagnostics in their mother tongue.
>
>Currently we are looking for a list of linguistic criteria to diagnose
>Turkish children, in particular a list of typical errors of
Turkish-speaking
>children with SLI ?
>
>Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. We will, of course, share all
>information with you.
>
>Katrin Lindner
>
>
>Dr. Katrin Lindner
>Institut fuer Deutsche Philologie
>Universitaet Muenchen
>Schellingstr. 3
>D 80799 Muenchen
>Germany
>
>Tel. 0049 89 2180 2917 (office)
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