The RAMDEI group ( Research Association for Multilingual Development, Education and Intervention) is based in Japan and the UK and is involved in a research project which aims to challenge the premise that a monolingual environment is the preferred option for the development of bilingual children with ASD.
Typically, the parents of those bilingual children with ASD are advised to use only a single language at home in order to make their child functionally monolingual, even though more than one language is often essential for the family simply to continue daily conversation. As a result, those bilingual children with ASD are forced to give up much of the natural conversational experience at home, which is indispensible for proper development of our social cognition.
Currently, very little empirical evidence is available on this topic, however, and new scientifically reliable data is urgently needed.
Why participate?
Assessment of your child’s linguistic & cognitive development: We will provide participants with opportunities for their children to take varieties of standard developmental tests for language and intelligence. We will report to the parents of the child with a written assessment of the child’s test results.
Help improve clinical & educational support for bilingual children with ASD: We expect that the project will bring us many clinically and educationally useful findings about bilingual children with ASD and their families.
Criteria for participants
Commitment: The child takes some linguistic tests in their own home with the researcher and parent present. In total the testing process takes about 4 .5 hours on average. It is fine for the child to take breaks between tests to play and unwind.
Language: Monolingual (English) or Bilingual (English & Japanese) children
Age: Five to Thirteen years old
Development: Children with or without ASD. ASD children will require some verbal output to complete the tests. Typically developing children are required as a control group.
Country of residence: We are currently gathering data from Japan and the UK.
To participate in this study, or for more information, contact Eugene Ryan at: [email protected]
Research Team
K. Gondo, Ph.D. Kyoritsu Women’s University. M. Oi, Ph.D. & H. Li-Kinukawa, Kanazawa University. T. Matsui, Ph.D. Tokyo Gakugei University, E. Ryan, Toyohashi Tech University
Typically, the parents of those bilingual children with ASD are advised to use only a single language at home in order to make their child functionally monolingual, even though more than one language is often essential for the family simply to continue daily conversation. As a result, those bilingual children with ASD are forced to give up much of the natural conversational experience at home, which is indispensible for proper development of our social cognition.
Currently, very little empirical evidence is available on this topic, however, and new scientifically reliable data is urgently needed.
Why participate?
Assessment of your child’s linguistic & cognitive development: We will provide participants with opportunities for their children to take varieties of standard developmental tests for language and intelligence. We will report to the parents of the child with a written assessment of the child’s test results.
Help improve clinical & educational support for bilingual children with ASD: We expect that the project will bring us many clinically and educationally useful findings about bilingual children with ASD and their families.
Criteria for participants
Commitment: The child takes some linguistic tests in their own home with the researcher and parent present. In total the testing process takes about 4 .5 hours on average. It is fine for the child to take breaks between tests to play and unwind.
Language: Monolingual (English) or Bilingual (English & Japanese) children
Age: Five to Thirteen years old
Development: Children with or without ASD. ASD children will require some verbal output to complete the tests. Typically developing children are required as a control group.
Country of residence: We are currently gathering data from Japan and the UK.
To participate in this study, or for more information, contact Eugene Ryan at: [email protected]
Research Team
K. Gondo, Ph.D. Kyoritsu Women’s University. M. Oi, Ph.D. & H. Li-Kinukawa, Kanazawa University. T. Matsui, Ph.D. Tokyo Gakugei University, E. Ryan, Toyohashi Tech University
