Optimizing Bilingual Development in Typical and Atypical Children: Language Acquisition, Use, and Interventions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798337317526

Verlag: IGI GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING, 2025

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Bilingual language development is a complex and dynamic process that shapes how children interact, learn, and participate in society. Understanding the factors that influence bilingual acquisition is essential for supporting both typically developing children and those with developmental differences. Research demonstrates that bilingualism can offer significant cognitive, social, and academic benefits, even for children with language-related challenges, provided they receive appropriate support. In inclusive and culturally responsive environments, dual language development can enhance identity, promote equity, and facilitate meaningful participation in diverse communities. As such, fostering bilingualism is not only a linguistic endeavor but also a pathway to broader societal inclusion and resilience. Optimizing Bilingual Development in Typical and Atypical Children: Language Acquisition, Use, and Interventions offers a comprehensive exploration of bilingual development across typical and atypical populations. It emphasizes evidence-based educational and clinical practices and provides a unified framework for understanding bilingualism as a dynamic and context-dependent process. Covering topics such as ADHD, morphology, and psychomotor development, this book is an excellent resource for researchers, educators, clinicians, policymakers, and more.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dimitra V. Katsarou is an Assistant Professor with Tenure of Developmental Psychopathology and Language Disorders at the Department of Preschool Education Sciences and Educational Design of the University of the Aegean. She has implemented more than 15 funded projects such as Erasmus plus, Cost eu, Erasmus sport etc mainly focusing on intergenerational activities among seniors, youngsters and preschool teachers and special education. She has 60 scholarly publications in influential peer-reviewed journals indexed in scientific databases and more than 100 conference presentations, she has written eleven children's fairy tales and three theatrical plays. She has authored three books, she is the scientific editor of eleven books and is participating in chapters in other scientific publications more than 50 so far. In parallel with the University of the Aegean, she has worked as adjunct faculty at the University of Nicosia, the University of Thessaly, the University of Derby, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Hellenic Open University, the Frederick University and the Neapolis University of Paphos. Her research interests focus on the special education and psychological problems of children with intellectual disabilities, neurolinguistics, cognitive processes, autism, developmental psychopathology, speech development, genetic syndromes and intergenerational activities.

Ifigeneia Dosi , is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics with a specialization in Bilingual Development at the Department of Humanities, Democritus University of Thrace. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and two Master’s degrees in Linguistics & Language Disorders. She has taught at universities in Greece and abroad and has extensive research experience in language development in bilingual and monolingual populations, as well as in individuals with developmental language disorders. Her work includes numerous scientific publications, presentations at international conferences, and participation in national and international research projects. In 2025, she received an IKYDA research grant and an IKY Scholarship for international academic collaboration with Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (Germany) and Macquarie University (Australia), respectively. Both projects examine written narrative production across the two languages of bilingual children.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: IGI GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798337317526
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 578
• Herausgeber: Katsarou Dimitra V., Dosi Ifigeneia
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