Kerry Danahy Ebert|Kathryn Kohnert|Giang Pham|Jill Rentmeester Disher|Bita Payesteh
Three Treatments for Bilingual Children With Primary Language Impairment: Examining Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Domain Effects
Rush University|University of Minnesota System|University of Massachusetts Amherst|University of Minnesota System|University of Minnesota System
purpose study examines absolute relative effects 3 different treatment programs schoolage bilingual children primary specific language impairment pli serves expand evidence base service providers base treatment decisions also explores hypothesized relations languages cognition bilinguals pli method fiftynine schoolage spanishenglish bilingual children pli assigned receive nonlinguistic cognitive processing english bilingual spanishenglish deferred treatment participants 3 active treatments received treatment administered nationally certified speechlanguage pathologists pre posttreatment assessments measured change nonlinguistic cognitive processing english spanish skills analyses examined change within across treatment groups skill domains results active treatment groups made significant pre posttreatment improvement multiple outcome measures fewer significant changes spanish english across groups betweengroup comparisons indicate active treatment groups generally outperformed deferred treatment control reaching statistical significance 2 tasks conclusion results provide insight crosslanguage transfer bilingual children advance understanding general pli profile respect relationships basic cognitive processing higher level language skills