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Area of Science:

Speech and Language Pathology
Educational Psychology
Developmental Pediatrics

Background:

Universal screening for developmental language disorder (DLD) aims to prevent negative educational outcomes.
Multilingual students often face challenges with standard language testing due to language barriers.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the impact of a single-language DLD screener on a multilingual student population.
To explore alternative methods for using single-language screening data to identify DLD risk in multilingual students.

Main Methods:

An English-only DLD screener was administered to 703 kindergartners with English language learner (ELL) status.
Analyzed screener outcomes, DLD risk status, and English proficiency.
Explored alternative data analysis: local norms, adjusted cut-points, score changes, and hybrid approaches.

Main Results:

The English-only screener overidentified multilingual students as at risk for DLD.
A negative correlation was found between DLD risk identification and English proficiency.
Alternative data analysis methods reduced the overidentification rate of ELLs at risk for DLD.

Conclusions:

Single-language DLD screening overidentifies multilingual students.
Monolingual screening approaches are cautioned against for multilingual students.
Alternative methods for analyzing English-only screening data are encouraged for better identification of DLD risk.