This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support research to (1) document the home and community storytelling practices of Mexican-American bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), and (2) compare the utility of using measures derived from within the linguistic community versus standardized measures. The $122,654 award, covering the period from June 2024 to June 2026, will leverage ethnographic observations, interviews, surveys, and narrative sample analysis to gather data on the storytelling practices of this population. The research aims to utilize culturally and linguistically appropriate descriptions of linguistic backgrounds for linguistically minoritized children with disabilities, as well as identify which assessment methods best fit the community-specific ways of telling stories. This fellowship includes mentorship and training opportunities with researchers across California, including a data collection site in Santa Ana.
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