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Purpose: Pediatricians are the first professionals to provide guidance about language development to families with young children and referrals for those who may have a language or communication disorder. One-quarter of children in the United States are dual language learners (DLLs), yet there is little information about pediatrician's readiness to provide culturally and linguistically responsive care for these children. This pilot study sought to examine pediatricians' knowledge of bilingual language development and its relation to the provision of language and literacy promotion and developmental surveillance for Latine DLLs.
Method: Sixty-seven pediatricians at two academic pediatric clinics completed a survey asking about their knowledge about bilingual language development, Spanish proficiency, and provision of culturally effective health care to Latine DLLs. Analyses examined mean levels of these variables as well as relationships between knowledge, proficiency, and practices.
Results: On average, pediatricians' responses to the knowledge-based questions agreed with the evidence 69% of the time. Only 29% of pediatricians said they felt comfortable counseling Latine parents on bilingual language development, and 75% indicated they had difficulty recognizing signs of a language or communication disorders in Latine children from Spanish-speaking homes. Multiple regressions showed that pediatricians with higher Spanish proficiency and those with greater knowledge of bilingual language development provided more culturally and linguistically responsive care to Latine DLLs.
Conclusions: We identified significant gaps in pediatricians' knowledge about bilingual language development that were associated with their practice patterns. Results highlight the need for incorporating training about bilingual language development into pediatric education and increasing the number of providers that speak languages other than English.
Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.29954468.
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