title: How's your Spanish, Vietnamese, Hmong and ...? Or, can your pediatric patients understand you?
abstract: While there are areas of concentration in particular states, throughout the nation the number of young children (and their parents/guardians) who have limited communication abilities in the English language is continuing to increase. Almost three-quarters of school-age children with limited English language proficiency speak Spanish at home.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Dentistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-8706, USA.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Waldman
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003144:Communication Barriers; D019140:Dental Care for Children; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D014481:United States