Reference : Assessments of working memory: a tool for differentiating between language disorder a...
Scientific journals : Article
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Treatment & clinical psychology
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/47439
Assessments of working memory: a tool for differentiating between language disorder and language difference in multilingual contexts?
English
[fr] Évaluation de la mémoire de travail : un outil de différenciation entre trouble du langage et différence du langage dans des contextes multilingues ?
Wealer, Cyril[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Humanities (DHUM) >]
Engel de Abreu, Pascale[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Humanities (DHUM) >]
[en] Bilingualism ; Working memory ; Assessment ; Diagnosis ; Language disorder
[en] Diagnosing language disorders in bilingual children represents a clini- cal challenge because of similarities in the language proficiency profile between typically developing bilingual children and monolingual chil- dren with a language disorder. Measures of working memory are less dependent on accumulated knowledge than traditional language tests and might help to differentiate a language disorder from a language dif- ference related to experiences with a language.