“…We noted that the linguistic barriers when reacting to pain might affect verbal expression of the injury. Indeed, children from EAL background provide less elaborate language in their narratives compared to native speakers (Gorman, Fiestas, Peña, & Clark, 2011;Han, Leichtman, & Wang, 1998;Parke, 2001) and also when talking about pain (Azize, Endacott, Cattani, & Humphreys, 2014;Azize et al, 2011). For example, Azize et al (2014) found that EAL children tended to focus their stories either on using limited vocabulary (albeit very animated) AZIZE ET AL.…”