TY - JOUR
T1 - A simplified approach to quantifying a child’s bilingual language experience
AU - Calandruccio, Lauren
AU - Beninate, Isabella
AU - Oleson, Jacob
AU - Miller, Margaret K.
AU - Leibold, Lori J.
AU - Buss, Emily
AU - Rodriguez, Barbara L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors whose names are listed above report that this work was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant R01DC015056. We are grateful to Diana Regalado and Manuel Vicente for help with data collection. Ryan McCreery and Dawna Lewis have provided valuable input for this project. A portion of these data were presented at the 2018 Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Purpose: Bilingual children’s linguistic experience can vary markedly from child to child. For appropriate audiological assessment and intervention, audiologists need accurate and efficient ways to describe and understand a bilingual child’s dynamic linguistic experience. This report documents an approach for quantitatively capturing a child’s language exposure and usage in a time-efficient manner. Method: A well-known pediatric bilingual language survey was administered to 83 parents of bilingual children, obtaining information about the child’s exposure to (input) and usage of (output) Spanish and English for seventeen 1-hr intervals during a typical weekday and weekend day. Results: A factor analysis indicated that capturing linguistic exposure and usage over three grouped-time intervals during a typical weekday and weekend day accounted for ≥ 74% of the total variance of the linguistic information captured with the full-length survey. Conclusions: Although further confirmation is required, these results suggest that collecting language exposure and usage data from parents of bilingual children for three grouped-time intervals provides similar information as a comprehensive hour-by-hour approach. A time-efficient method of capturing the dynamic bilingual linguistic experience of a child would benefit pediatric audiologists and speech-language pathologists alike.
AB - Purpose: Bilingual children’s linguistic experience can vary markedly from child to child. For appropriate audiological assessment and intervention, audiologists need accurate and efficient ways to describe and understand a bilingual child’s dynamic linguistic experience. This report documents an approach for quantitatively capturing a child’s language exposure and usage in a time-efficient manner. Method: A well-known pediatric bilingual language survey was administered to 83 parents of bilingual children, obtaining information about the child’s exposure to (input) and usage of (output) Spanish and English for seventeen 1-hr intervals during a typical weekday and weekend day. Results: A factor analysis indicated that capturing linguistic exposure and usage over three grouped-time intervals during a typical weekday and weekend day accounted for ≥ 74% of the total variance of the linguistic information captured with the full-length survey. Conclusions: Although further confirmation is required, these results suggest that collecting language exposure and usage data from parents of bilingual children for three grouped-time intervals provides similar information as a comprehensive hour-by-hour approach. A time-efficient method of capturing the dynamic bilingual linguistic experience of a child would benefit pediatric audiologists and speech-language pathologists alike.
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U2 - 10.1044/2021_AJA-20-00214
DO - 10.1044/2021_AJA-20-00214
M3 - Article
C2 - 34310200
AN - SCOPUS:85115316776
SN - 1059-0889
VL - 30
SP - 769
EP - 776
JO - American journal of audiology
JF - American journal of audiology
IS - 3
ER -