Ulrika Nettelbladt

Linguistic and cultural factors affecting intervention for bilingual children with language impairment

Earlier research results have shown that parents of bilingual children with language impairment significantly more often interrupt logopedic intervention compared to monolingual parents, and that the risk correlates with increasing severity of the child's language impairment. The prognosis for a child with severe language impairment deteriorates if intervention is interrupted. The aim of this project is to investigate possible linguistic and cultural factors behind the parental decision to interrupt intervention. The ultimate goal is to provide a culture-sensitive logopedic intervention that bilingual parents are willing to accept and participate in. 45 bilingual families will be interviewed; families who interrupted and completed intervention respectively, and bilingual families with children without language impairment for a comparison. 10 monolingual families who completed intervention will also be interviewed. All families will be interviewed on issues regarding language socialization, attitudes to language impairment and their notion of an optimal intervention. The speech-language clinicians involved will be interviewed on their views on intervention for bilingual children. In an earlier project on bilingual children with language impairment a database was established. It will be supplemented with intervention data for the 759 participating bilingual and monolingual children as a point of reference in the analysis of parental non-compliance and compliance.

Final report

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Grant administrator
Lunds universitet
Reference number
P2004-0527:1
Amount
SEK 1,400,000
Funding
RJ Projects
Subject
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Year
2004