How to measure the topic specific vocabulary acquisition in chilren with Down syndrome?

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Reza Biria

Dear Thillini,

I personally think that carefully chosen picture descrion techiniques can best be used for measuring topic specific vocabulary acquisition by such children.

Best regards,

R. Biria

Kate M Huddlestone

While this is not my field, I am aware of a COST action project looking at language impairment in bilinguals (http://www.bi-sli.org/index.htm). You might find some of their publications helpful. I do know they have a working group looking at lexical and phonological processing...

Thilini Wijeratne

Thanks a lot for taking your time for your valuable responses. Kate thanks for the link and I will definitely look on it.

Thank you very much for all your useful suggestions.