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Bilingual speech therapy uptown

12/19/2011

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The Uptowner in NYC runs a rather deficit-oriented, but interesting piece on bilingualism and speech delays. This lacks a bit of nuance, as with the following passage: “'Research shows that bilingual kids have smaller vocabularies; kids from poor backgrounds are shown to have a smaller vocabulary. So they will score lower on tests,' says Crowley" who is one of the main sources of information for the piece. Of course she fails to mention that aggregating the vocabularies across the languages of bilingual kids often reduces the vocabulary discrepancies she mentions.
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