Responses to query on speech delays in multilingual environments

Thu Apr 5 14:20:34 UTC 2007

PS Nice list!

Could I just correct my name. Should be:

Gupta, Anthea Fraser.

The surname is 'Gupta': 'Fraser' is part of my personal name.

Anthea
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Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)
School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
<www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg>
NB: Reply to a.f.gupta at leeds.ac.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu 
> [mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Harold F. Schiffman
> Sent: 05 April 2007 15:10
> To: Language Policy-List
> Subject: Responses to query on speech delays in multilingual 
> environments
> 
> Regarding Query: http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-895.html#1
> 
> Once more, I would like to thank all of you who took time to 
> respond to my inquiry. THANK YOU!!! I appreciate your time, 
> kindness, and advice.  At submitting my inquiry I hoped for 
> one or two responses. At the end I received a lot more than 
> expected. I compiled the suggested reference into a single 
> list (some are still with web links, and some helpful remarks).
> It is a very impressive literature list. I hope it will help 
> other people who are interested in the similar problem.
> 
>  To summarize the research:
> 
> There are two schools of thought. The older one argues that 
> the multilingual environment may cause speech delay in young 
> children. The newer one refutes these claims and argues that 
> raising children in multilingual environment does not cause 
> any speech delays, but in fact, benefits the child's 
> development. So, if there are young children with apparent 
> speech delay, it is due to some other factors (but not to 
> multilingual environment).
> 
> Here is the list:  CHILDS SPEECH DELAY REFERENCES
> 
> Abu-Rabia, S. & L.S. Siegel (2002) Reading, Syntactic, 
> Orthographic, and Working Memory Skills of Bilingual 
> Arabic-English Speaking Canadian Children. Journal of 
> Psycholinguistic Research 31 (6):  661-678.
> 
> Ball, M. J. ( 2005) Clinical Sociolinguistics. Blackwell 
> Publishing Challenging Case: Cultural and Linguistic 
> Determinants in the Diagnosis and Management of Development 
> Delay in a Four Year Old. In Developmental and Behavioral 
> Pediatrics, Vol.23, No.5, October 2002. pp.  371-376
> (http://www.mcw.edu/display/displayFile.asp?docid=10231&filena
me=/User/akrimmer/CAUC/flores/JDBP_10-02.pdf)
> 
> Chandler Yeo, Helen, Susan Rickard Liow & Anthea Frase Gupta. (1994).
> Specific language disorders in Singaporean children: four 
> case studies.
> Singapore Journal of Education 114:2, pp. 1-10.
> 
> Chavda, Usha et al. (2000). Important issues in the Care and 
> Evaluation of Bilingual /Multilingual Children. International 
> Pediatrics, Vol.18, No.1, pp 8-13.  
> (http://int-pediatrics.org/PDF/Volume_18/18_1/8_13ip 03_WEB.pdf)
> 
> Child Language Teaching and Therapy (19:3), 1 October 2003:
> 
> Mahon M., Crutchley A., Quinn T. New directions in the 
> assessment of bilingual children pp.  237-243(7)
> 
> Martin D., Krishnamurthy R., Bhardwaj M., Charles R. Language 
> change in young Panjabi/English children: implications for 
> bilingual language assessment 245-265(21)
> 
> Pert S., Letts C. Developing an expressive language 
> assessment for children in Rochdale with a Pakistani heritage 
> background, pp. 267-289(23)
> 
> Seeff-Gabriel B. Phonological processing: a platform for 
> assisting second-language learners with English spelling, pp. 
> 291-310(20)
> 
> Howell P., Davis S., Au-Yeung J. Syntactic development in 
> fluent children, children who stutter, and children who have 
> English as an additional language, pp. 311-337(27)
> 
> Salameh E-K., Nettelbladt U., Norlin K. Assessing phonologies 
> in bilingual Swedish-Arabic children with and without 
> language impairment, pp. 338-364
> (27)
> 
> Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena. (2006). Three is a Crowd? 
> Multilingual Matters.
> 
> Cummins, J. (2000) Language Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual 
> Children in the Crossfire. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.
> 
> Duncan, D. (1989) Working with Bilingual Language Disability. 
> Chapman and Hall.
> 
> Feldman (2005). Evaluation and Management of Language and 
> Speech Disorders in Preschool Children. Pediatrics in Review. 
> 26: 131-142.
> 
> Fraser Gupta, Anthea and Helen Chandler. (1993). Pediatric 
> speech and language therapy referral in Singapore: 
> implications for multilingual language disability. European 
> Journal of Disorders of Communication 28, pp.  311-317.
> 
> Fraser Gupta, Anthea. (1994). Language disorder -- is 
> monolingualism necessary? The Bilingual Family Newsletter 11:4.
> 
> Genesee, F. (2003) Bilingualism and language impairment. In R.D. Kent
> (Ed.) MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. Cambridge, 
> MA: MIT Press, 275-278.
> 
> Genesee, F., Paradis, J., & Crago, M. (2004). Dual Language 
> Development and Disorders: A Handbook on Bilingualism and 
> Second Language Learning.
> Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.
> 
> Goldstein, B. (Ed.). (2004).  Bilingual Language Development 
> and Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers.  Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes
> 
> Harris, Margaret. 1992 (1993, 1996). Language experience and 
> early language development; from input to uptake.  Psychology 
> Press, Sussex.
> 
> Hokansson, G., E-K. Salameh & U. Nettelbladt (2003) Measuring 
> Language Development in Bilingual Children:  Swedish-Arabic 
> Children with and without Language Impairment. Linguistics 
> 41(2): 255-288
> 
> Holm A., Dodd B. (1999) An intervention case study of a 
> bilingual child with phonological disorder. Child Language 
> Teaching and Therapy, 1 June 1999, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 
> 139-158(20) (concerns English-Punjabi)
> 
> Hua, Zhu and Barbara Dodd, eds. Phonological development and 
> disorders in children : a multilingual perspective. 
> Multilingual Matters, 2006.
> 
> Jordaan, H., Shaw-Ridley, G., Serfontein, J., & Orelowitz, K. (2001).
> Cognitive and liguistic profiles of specific language 
> impairment and semantic-pragmatic disorder in bilinguals. 
> Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 53, 153-165.
> 
> Kay-Raining Bird, E., Cleave, P., Trudeau, N., Thordardottir, 
> E., Sutton, A., & Thorpe, A. (2005). The language abilities 
> of bilingual children with Down Syndrome. American Journal of 
> Speech-Language Pathology, 14, 187-199.
> 
> Klee, T et al. (2004)  Utterance Length and Lexical Diversity 
> in Cantonese-Speaking Children With and Without Specific 
> Language Impairment.
> JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH. 47; 6, pp.1396-1410.
> 
> Kohnert, K. et al (2005)  Intervention With Linguistically 
> Diverse Preschool Children: A Focus on Developing Home 
> Language(s). Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in 
> Schools. 36:3 pp 251-263.
> 
> Laing, S. Kahmi, A.(2003) Alternative Assessment of Language 
> and Literacy in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse 
> population. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools. 
> Vol 34, pp. 44-55.
> 
> Martin, D., Colesby,C. and Jhamat, K. (1997) Phonological 
> awareness in Panjabi/English children with phonological 
> difficulties.  Child Language Teaching and Therapy 13,1,59-72
> 
> Meisel, J. M. (1989).  Early differentiation of languages in 
> bilingual children. In K. Hyltenstam and L. K. Obler (Eds.), 
> Bilingualism Across the
> Lifespan: Aspects of Acquisition, Maturity, and Loss. Cambridge, UK:
> Cambridge University Press.
> 
> Meisel, J. (2004). The bilingual child. In T.J. Bhatia and 
> Richie (Eds.), The Handbook of Bilingualism (pp. 91-113). 
> Malden, MA: Blackwell.
> 
> Ng and Wigglesworth (upcoming). Bilingualism: An advanced 
> resource book.
> Routledge.
> 
> Paradis, J. (to appear). Bilingual Children with Special Language
> Impairment: Theoretical and Aplied Issues. Applied
> Psycholinguistic(http://www.ualberta.ca/~jparadis/Paradis_Bili
> ngSLI_AP_pdf.pdf)
> 
> Paradis, J. (2005) Grammatical Morphology in Children 
> Learning English as a Second Language: Implications of 
> Similarities With Specific Language Impairment . Language, 
> Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. 36:3 pp.
> 172-?
> 
> Paradis, J. & M. Crago (2000) Tense and temporality: a 
> comparison between children learning a second language and 
> children with SLI. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing 
> Research 43: 834847.
> 
> Paradis, J., Crago, M., Genesee, F., & Rice, M. (2003). 
> French- English bilingual children with SLI: How do they 
> compare with their monolingual peers? Journal of Speech, 
> Language, and Hearing Research, 46, 113-127.
> 
> Paradis, J. & Crago M (in press) Comparing L2 and SLI 
> grammars in child
> French: Focus on DP.  In J. Paradis & P. Pr?vost (eds) The 
> Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on 
> Functional Categories. Amsterdam:
> Benjamins
> 
> Ray, J.  (2002) Treating Phonological Disorders in a 
> Multilingual Child: A Case Study. American Journal of 
> Speech-Language Pathology. Vol 11,
> pp.305-315 (concerns English, Hindi, Gujurati)  Restrepo, M. 
> A., & Kruth, K. (2000).  Grammatical characteristics of a 
> Spanish-English bilingual child with SLI.  Communication 
> Disorders Quarterly, 21, 66-76.
> 
> Salameh et al (2004)  Developmental perspectives on bilingual 
> Swedish-Arabic children with and without language impairment: 
> a longitudinal study. IJLCD 39:1
> 
> Shriberg et al. (1999) Prevalence of Speech Delay in 
> 6-Year-Old Children and Comorbidity With Language. Journal of 
> Speech Language and Hearing Research. 42: 1461-1481
> 
> So L.K.H., Leung C-S.S. (2004). A phonological screening tool 
> for Cantonese-speaking children. Child Language Teaching and 
> Therapy, 1 February 2004, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 75-86(12)
> 
> Stow, C. and Dodd, B. (2003). Providing an equitable service 
> to bilingual children in the UK: a review. IJLCD 38:4
> 
> Tse, S.K. et al (2005). Is the expressive vocabulary of young 
> Cantonese speakers noun or verb dominated? Early Child 
> Development and Care, 175:3, pp. 215-227.
> 
> Good luck to all of you. And thank you again for your help, Svitlana
> 
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