Working bilingually with language disordered children: what is the evidence?

Abstract

Speech pathology has been facing the challenge of working with clients and families from multilingual and multicultural contexts for some time now. However, it is an area in which professionals continue to feel a lack of sufficient knowledge or skills, and where there seems to be little consensus. This edition of What’s the evidence draws on codes of ethics documents and human rights principles to suggest that speech pathologists could take a more advanced view of practices with bilingual clients. It then discusses how the current evidence base may be used to support the arguments for bilingual support and intervention for language disordered populations.