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Published on: June 6, 2020
[The place of the native language in speech therapy]
Véronique Jugand1, Alessandra Mapelli2, Geneviève Serre-Pradère3
1Centre des troubles du langage et des apprentissages, Hôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, Service de psychopathologie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, 125 rue de Stalingrad, 93000 Bobigny, France.
Abstract:
A high number of children consulting a speech therapist for a language disorder have in common the direct or indirect experience of migration and therefore find themselves in a context of plurilingualism. A dedicated group, called Mélimémo, has been set up for children in such situations. It enables their linguistic and cultural diversity to be integrated into the speech therapy.
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