Use the Houston Questionnaire to understand bilingual child self-report, language exposure, and limits in Spanish-English proficiency checks.
Resources and Tools
Bilingual Narrative Skills: Parent Resources
Build bilingual narrative skills with parent-friendly story retell, home-language reading, open questions, and realistic progress checks.
Caregiver-Mediated Interventions for DLD Risk
Caregiver-Mediated Interventions can support children at risk for DLD through responsive talk, coaching, and daily routines.
Bilingual Development Resources for Parents
Use Bilingual Development Resources to support home language, speech milestones, reading routines, and realistic progress checks for young children.
A Toddler Just Received a New Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss—What Families Should Understand
A 16-month-old Alabama toddler recently became the first patient at Boston Children’s Hospital to receive a newly approved gene therapy for hereditary hearing loss outside the clinical trial that helped bring it to market. The milestone makes OTOF hearing loss gene therapy sound like a dramatic new option for families, Continue Reading
The Best Speech and Language Apps for Kids: What Parents Should Actually Use
The digital marketplace is flooded with educational games promising rapid vocabulary expansion. Consequently, parents frequently ask speech-language pathologists which applications actually deliver measurable results. The truth is that most commercial tablet games offer little therapeutic value. They rely on flashy animations and passive consumption rather than active verbal engagement. However, Continue Reading