Speech-Language Pathologists' Support for Parents of Young d/Deaf Multilingual Learners.
Pauline van der Straten Waillet, Cécile Colin, Kathryn Crowe and 1 others
PMID 35989645WHAT IT FOUND
SLPs supporting multilingual children with hearing loss felt less satisfied than with mainstream families and lacked practical tools.
They recommended parents use the family language, while parents said no shared language made involvement hard.
Key findings
01SLPs rated satisfaction 7.4 for mainstream Belgian families and 4.8 for families of multilingual children with hearing loss on a 0 to 10 scale.
0269.2% of SLPs reported lacking tools and strategies for supporting families of multilingual children with hearing loss.
03All SLPs recommended that parents use their mother tongue with the child.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for SLPs
Read the rest of this summary
You get three full summaries a month, free, and we do not ask for a card. Search, the TL;DRs and your library stay unlimited either way.
What it does not show
The study was small and preliminary. It included only speech-language pathologists working with children with hearing loss and only mothers, so it may not represent other clinicians, fathers, or families with other conditions. Participants were recruited from settings where the researchers may have known them. The survey questions were designed for this study and some answers were ambiguous. The findings are subjective reports about needs and experiences, not measured child or parent outcomes.
Declared interests
Funding came from the Dr Daniël De Coninck Fund and the Belgian Kids Fund for Pediatric Research. The authors reported no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that interpreters, translated materials, or family language advice improve child communication outcomes. It reports what SLPs and parents said they needed, not a tested intervention.