Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through
monolingual norms as if fair conclusions were possible in the absence of fair comparison. In
addition multilingualism concerns what people do with language not what languages do to
people. Yet research focus remains on multilinguals' languages as if languages existed despite
their users. This book redresses these paradoxes. Multilingual scholars teachers and
speech-language clinicians from Europe Asia Australia and the US contribute the first studies
dedicated to multilingual norms those found in real-life multilingual development assessment
and use. Readership includes educators clinicians decision-makers and researchers interested
in multilingualism.
