Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0560345

Funding Activity

Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0560345

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Detecting language disorder in children with a language background other than English: the role of the Dynamic Assessment. 17.6% of Australia's culturally diverse population are born in non-English speaking countries. Recently, reports of unprecedented growth in the diagnosis of children with language disorders have emerged. There are difficulties in accurately identifying children at risk of language disorder. We hypothesize that some children with language backgrounds other than English (LBOTE) are mis-identified. If true, then scarce resources are being misdirected and inappropriately allocated, depriving children with true language disorder of support and intervention. The aim of this project is to determine the utility of the Dynamic Assessment to discriminate normal language learning from language learning difficulties in LBOTE children.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 24-03-2005

End Date: 24-03-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $71,901.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

English As A Second Language | Other Education | Clinical Sciences | Rehabilitation And Therapy: Hearing And Speech

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ethnicity and multiculturalism | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Child health |

Other Keywords

Child health | Clinical Sciences | English As A Second Language | Ethnicity and multiculturalism | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Other Education | Rehabilitation And Therapy: Hearing And Speech

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