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My SLP professor, Dr. Stefka Marinova-Todd, is back on the SLP Corner podcast for a part two! She is a developmental psycholinguist with her main research interests being bilingual language development and second language acquisition. Dr. Marinova-Todd is an Associate Professor at the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at UBC and is currently an Associate Editor at Applied Psycholinguistics, and is on the editorial board at Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools which is an ASHA journal.
Previous podcast recordings with Dr. Marinova-Todd:
The reference to Paradis’ work on how monolingual SLPs could still do assessment on bilingual children:
Paradis, J., Schneider, P. & Sorenson Duncan, T. (2013). Discriminating children with language impairment among English language learners from diverse first language backgrounds. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 56, 971-981.
Free resources fo the assessments used in the article that Johanne and her colleagues have provided on their websites:
Two recent articles from the US on working with Spanish-English bilingual children:
1. Lazewnik, R., Creaghead, N. A., Smith, A. B., Prendeville, J. A., Raisor-Becker, L., & Silbert, N. (2019). Identifiers of Language Impairment for Spanish-English Dual Language Learners. Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, 50(1), 126–137.
2. Elizabeth D. Peña, Lisa M Bedore, Mirza J. Lugo-Neris & Nahar Albudoor (2020) Identifying Developmental Language Disorder in School Age Bilinguals: Semantics, Grammar, and Narratives, Language Assessment Quarterly, 17:5, 541-558,
CHILDES website: https://childes.talkbank.org
4) The International Guide to Speech Acquisition (2007), Sharynne McLeod (Ed.), Delmar Publishers Inc.
The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World, which will be an updated and expanded version of the Guide, is coming up in the near future.
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