Investigating practitioners’ perceived self- confidence and practices for multilingual children with developmental language disorder : The case of Sweden

• The aim of the present study is twofold: to explore the assessment andintervention practices of Swedish practitioners (mainly Speech and LanguageTherapists: SLTs) for multilingual children with Developmental LanguageDisorders (DLD) and to explore to which extent they perceive themselves asconfident with respect to assessment and intervention. The data comes fromthe Swedish part of the survey by the European research network (COST1406),including data from 35 countries. In total, 101 practitioners in Swedenanswered an online survey. Most of the respondents were female, had amaster’s degree, Swedish as their first language (L1), and used only onelanguage in their professional role. All the practitioners answered the firstsection, 45 of whom also answered questions regarding which languages theyuse in assessment and intervention with multilingual children. A majority of theparticipants reported that they encourage parents to use the minority languagewhen communicating with their child at home. The results indicate a contextspecific DLD intervention approach in which Swedish practitioners tend toemphasize the importance of native language-usage at home. However, due tothe amount of missing data, methodological issues need to be taken intoconsideration.

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MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Annan medicin och hälsovetenskap -- Övrig annan medicin och hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Other Medical and Health Sciences -- Other Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)

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language studies

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