The results were contrary to the researchers’ hypothesis that bilingualism would present an advantage, as was the case in a prior study on attention issues within typically developing children.
), anxiety, autism, and disruptive behavior were among the comorbid diagnoses represented among participants.
Monolingual children outperformed their bilingual peers in the verbal fluency assessment, where participants were tasked with rapidly naming words under several semantic categories, like food and colors. The findings align with those in prior studies that revealed a monolingual advantage over the skill across the board.
“The opposing effects of bilingualism and attention problems on cognitive processes appear to operate differently among children with neurodevelopment problems… than they do among typically developing children,” the study concludes.
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