PROJECTS
   

Project
Acronym: Cost Action IS0804 BI-SLI 
Name: Language impairment in a multilingual society: Linguistic patterns and the road to assessment 
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Project status: From: 2009-01-20 To: 2013-06-07 (Completed)
Type (Programme): COST 
Croatian partner
Organisation name: Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet 
Contact person name: Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic
Contact person tel:
0038512457543 
Short description of project
To profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network that will coordinate research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across different migrant communities. Derived objectives disentangle bilingualism and SLI by establishing the relative contribution of each show how SLI can be identified in both of a child's languages explore the extent to which the manifestations of SLI are similar or different across languages in the same child establish whether the nature and severity of SLI is affected by the child's acquisition of more than one language Secondary objectives mentor young researchers from countries with significant immigrant populations and language combinations identify critical sociolinguistic information which will set standards for increasing comparability of research in biSLI develop guidelines for assessment How the Action is motivated COST Action IS0804 is motivated theoretically by: – how typological differences between the two languages of bilingual children with SLI effect the manifestation of SLI in each language – how bilingualism and language impairment, respectively, affect the performance of bilingual children with SLI COST Action IS0804 is motivated practically by: – challenges that multilingualism poses for the diagnosis and treatment of language-impaired bilingual children                      


   

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