Perspectives on working with preschool children from Panjabi- Gujarati- and Bengali-speaking families

This chapter in the book Multilingual Perspectives on Child Language Disorders edited by Janet L Patterson and Barbara L Rodriguez presents a framework for speech-language pathology practice with multilingual populations, giving specific information about the linguistics communities in East London with which the authors are familiar. Cultural and linguistic considerations are introduced and an approach to assessment that entails the building of a child's profile is described and exemplified by a case study.