How's your Spanish, Vietnamese, Hmong and ...? Or, can your pediatric patients understand you?
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.
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Department of General Dentistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-8706, USA.
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