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Silvana M. R. Watson; Carol Westby – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2025
Purpose: The intent of this article is to explain the complexity of the diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual (ML) children and adolescents and to offer strategies for speech-language pathologists charged with diagnosis of language impairment in these children.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Lopes-Murphy, Solange A.; Murphy, Christopher G. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2020
Fundamental to the hypothesis-driven approach to assessing the special-education (SPED) needs of English learners (ELs) is the awareness that behaviors often exhibited by ELs may mirror indicators of learning disabilities (e.g., difficulty comprehending text, difficulty following directions, lack of appropriate classroom behavior, lack of…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
Crosson, Amy C.; McKeown, Margaret G.; Robbins, Kelly P.; Brown, Kathleen J. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Purpose: In this clinical focus, the authors argue for robust vocabulary instruction with emergent bilingual learners both in inclusive classroom settings and in clinical settings for emergent bilinguals with language and literacy disorders. Robust vocabulary instruction focuses on high-utility academic words that carry abstract meanings and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Bilingualism, Inclusion, Teaching Methods
Danzak, Robin L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The study's purpose was to assess, through mixed methods, written linguistic features of 20 Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) in middle school. Students came from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Participants wrote two expository and two narrative formal texts, each in Spanish and English, for a total of eight…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Language Attitudes