After all, it requires solid knowledge of normal development in bilingual children but also of the symptoms of the impairment. This book (the outcome of a European COST project) presents a broad set of diagnostic tools that can be used in both of a bilingual child´s languages. It also supplies the scientific rationale behind the tools. The tasks described target different linguistic domains and also non-linguistic skills. Testing the child in two languages in tandem should result in a more reliable diagnostic process and prevent misdiagnosis.

Assessing Multilingual Children. Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment

• Sharon Armon-Lotem, Jan de Jong & Natalia Meir (eds.)
• Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2015
• ISBN: 9781783093120; 9781783093113