Nonword repetition has been proposed as a diagnostic marker of developmental language disorder (DLD); however, the inconsistency in the ability of nonword repetition tasks (NRT) to identify children with DLD raises significant questions regarding its feasibility as a clinical tool. Research suggests that some of the inconsistency across NRT may be due to differences in the nature of the nonword stimuli. In this study, we compared children’s performance on NRT between two cohorts: the children in the Catalan–Spanish cohort (CS) were bilingual, and the children in the European Portuguese cohort (EP) were monolingual. NRT performance was assessed in both Spanish and Catalan for the bilingual children from Catalonia-Spain and in Portuguese for the monolingual children from Portugal. Results show that although the absolute performance differed across the two cohorts, with NRT performance being lower for the CS, in both Catalan and Spanish, as compared to the EP cohort in both, the cut-points for the likelihood ratios (LH) were similar across the three languages and mirror those previously reported in previous studies. However, the absolute LH ratio values for this study were higher than those reported in prior research due in part to differences in wordlikeness and frequency of the stimuli in the current study. Taken together, the findings from this study show that an NRT consisting of 3-, 4-, and 5-syllable nonwords, which varies in wordlikeness ratings, when presented in a random order accurately identifies and correctly differentiates children with DLD from TD controls the child is bilingual or monolingual.
El Trastorno Específico del Lenguaje (TEL) es un trastorno del neurodesarrollo que afecta aproximadamente a un 7% de la población y que compromete a la expresión y/o comprensión del lenguaje oral. Sin embargo, es un trastorno muy desconocido para la población general. Uno de los factores que lo explican es la gran dispersión terminológica que diferentes profesionales y manuales de diagnóstico han utilizado para designarlo. Ante el gran desconocimiento del trastorno y la confusión generada a nivel profesional respecto a la nomenclatura y los criterios diagnósticos Bishop et al. (2016, 2017) llevaron a cabo dos estudios a través del método Delphi en el que participaron diferentes investigadores, profesionales del TEL así como personas de asociaciones de familiares del ámbito angloparlante (consorcio CATALISE). Las principales conclusiones fueron la apuesta por el cambio terminológico hacia el Trastorno del Desarrollo del Lenguaje (TDL) así como unos criterios de diagnósticos que enfatizan en las dificultades funcionales que genera el trastorno y en su pronóstico. En el presente artículo se hace una revisión exhaustiva de todas las implicaciones que los resultados de estos estudios tienen en la conceptualización, la evaluación y la intervención del trastorno. En el ámbito hispanohablante es necesario que se lleve a cabo un trabajo de reflexión y consenso que acuerde la nomenclatura y los criterios de diagnósticos para adaptarlos/ajustarlos al contexto sociocultural y lingüístico de todos los países de habla hispana.
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