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Comparisons Of The Effects Of Monolingual And Bilingual Exposure On Executive Functioning Among Neurodevelopmentally Vulnerable Children, Teresa Hermodson-Olsen

Antonian Scholars Honors Program

The purpose of this study is to examine levels of executive functioning among a group of children who were referred to a pediatric neuropsychology outpatient clinic, and to compare these executive functioning scores between children living in bilingual homes with children living in monolingual homes. One-hundred and fifty children (61% male, mean age = 10.3 years) referred to a pediatric neuropsychology clinic were grouped into 1 of 2 groups based on parent report: English-only homes (N=121, 61% male, mean age = 10.5 years) and bilingual homes (N=29, 61% male, mean age = 9.4 years). Executive functioning was assessed using the …