Evaluation von LITMUS-Satzwiederholungsverfahren für die sprachdiagnostische Praxis (EVA-SRT)

Due to the paucity of appropriate language assessment tools for bilingual populations in Germany, educators and clinical practitioners constantly face the challenge of how to ascertain whether below-average performance of a bilingual child in language screening tests is indicative of an underlying developmental language disorder (DLD) or is merely the result of insufficient exposure to the societal language. This uncertainty is responsible for the high rates of misdiagnosis with language and communication disorders among bilingual children with severe consequences for the child and the society. During the past decade, a set of cross-linguistic experimental tasks known as the LITMUS tools (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings) were developed and probed for their ability to identify DLD in bilingual children within and beyond the European context with very promising results also for the German multilingual context. Sentence repetition, which measures morphosyntactic abilities, proved to be particularly successful in disentangling typical from atypical language development not only in bilingual but also in bilectal children (Grohmann & Armon-Lotem, 2021). The proposed project „Evaluation von LITMUS-Satzwiederholungsve