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Vocabulary overlap of 30-50% in simultaneous bilinguals suggests that they cannot distinguish between the two languages they are learning.

Which hypothesis describes the idea that a simultaneous bilingual’s two languages are not differentiated at first? In other words, when children start out learning two languages, they do not separate them.

Suppose that you are a school SLP.  A 2nd-grade teacher refers a child to you whose family speaks Vietnamese at home because the teacher suspects a language disorder.  As you think about assessing this child’s language ability, what are some factors that may influence how quickly the child learns English?

Which of the following is a piece of evidence against linguistic determinism (the Whorfian hypothesis)?

Which of the following is a piece of evidence in favor of linguistic determinism (the Whorfian hypothesis)?

Providing definitions for words is…

Research on reading instruction indicates that children have better reading outcomes when [choice1] is used rather than [choice2]. Word bank:  decoding; whole language  

In order to be diagnosed with autism, an individual…

For which child is augmentative & alternative communication most likely to be an effective intervention tool?

Code-switching is…