Webinar: Knowing which bilingual children to refer: using a parental questionnaire to screen for language difficulties by Professor Cecile de Cat
- Date
- Wednesday 18 November 2026, 4pm-5pm
- Location
- Webinar
- Tickets
- Free. Booking required.
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Webinar: Knowing which bilingual children to refer: using a parental questionnaire to screen for language difficulties by Professor Cecile de Cat
Which bilingual pupils should you refer for language support, and which just need more time? This online session explains how a free parental questionnaire, Q-BEx, helps educators screen fairly and decide.
Bilingual and multilingual children are routinely mis-served by language assessment designed for monolingual pupils: some are wrongly referred when they simply need more exposure to the school language, while others with a genuine language impairment are missed because their difficulties are put down to bilingualism.
Cécile De Cat is a professor of linguistics at the University of Leeds, UK. She specialises in bilingualism (mainly in children and adolescents), and on the environmental, experiential and cognitive factors affecting language outcomes.
