Spanish speakers, whether in monolingual or bilingual situations, or in majority or minority contexts, represent a considerable population worldwide. Spanish speakers in the U.S. constitute an illustrative context of the challenges faced by speech-language practitioners to provide realistic services to an increasing and diverse Spanish-speaking caseload. There is still considerable paucity in the amount of literature on Hispanic individuals with clinical relevance in speech-language pathology. Particularly lacking are works that link both empirical and theoretical bases to evidence-based procedures for child and adult Spanish users with communication disorders. Further, because communication skills depend on multiple phenomena beyond strictly linguistic factors, speech-language students and practitioners require multidisciplinary bases to realistically understand Spanish clients’ communication performance. This volume attempts to address those gaps. This publication takes a multidisciplinary approach that integrates both theoretical and empirical grounds from Speech-Language Pathology, Neurolinguistics, Neuropsychology, Education, and Clinical Psychology to develop evidence-based clinical procedures for monolingual Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English children and adults with communication disorders.
Table of Content
Introduction
Part I Preliminary Considerations
1. Contrastive Analysis between Spanish and English – R.T. Anderson and J. G. Centeno
2. English Language Learners: Literacy and Biliteracy Considerations – H. Kayser and J. G. Centeno
3. Bilingual Development and Communication – J. G. Centeno
4. Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism – M. R. Gitterman and H. Datta
5. Sociocultural, Societal, and Psychological Aspects of Bilingualism – A. Z. Brozgold and J. G. Centeno
6. Cross-linguistic Research: The Convergence of Monolingual and Bilingual Data – R. T. Anderson
7. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language Disorders among Spanish Speakers – B. Stuart Weekes
8. Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Clinical Communication Research with Hispanic Populations – J.G. Centeno and W. Gingerich
Part II Research in Children: Conceptual, Methodological, Empirical, and Clinical Considerations
9. Exploring the Grammar of Spanish-speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment – R. T. Anderson
10. Language Elicitation and Analysis as a Research and Clinical Tool for Latino Children – M. Adelaida Restrepo and A. P. Castilla
11. Utterance Length Measures for Spanish-speaking Toddlers – D. Jackson-Maldonado and B.T. Conboy
12. Lexical Skills in Young Children Learning a Second Language – K. Kohnert and Pui Fong Kan
13. Measuring Phonological Skills in Bilingual Children – B. A. Goldstein
Part III Research in Adults: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Implications
14. Prepositional Processing in Spanish Speakers with Aphasia – B. A. Reyes
15. Cohesion in the Conversational Samples of Broca’s Aphasic Individuals – L. G. Pietrosemoli
16. Language Switching in the Context of Spanish-English Bilingual Aphasia – A.I. Ansaldo and K. Marcotte
17. Description and Detection of Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Spanish – I. Carolina Iribarren
18. Crosslinguistic Aspects of Dyslexia in Spanish-English Bilinguals – E. Ijalba and L. K. Obler
19. Neuropsychological Profile of Adult Illiterates and the Development and Application of a Neuropsychological Program for Learning to Read – F. Ostrosky-Solís, A. Lozano, M. J. Ramírez, and A. Ardila
20. Phonetic Descriptions of Speech Production in Bilingual Speakers – F. Bell-Berti
Epilogue – L. K. Obler
About the author
Loraine K. Obler, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, with appointments in both Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Linguistics, as well as at the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center of the Boston University School of Medicine. She has co-authored articles and books on her areas of interest: neurolinguistics, bilingualism and the brain, cross-language study of aphasia, and language in aging. http://web.gc.cuny.edu/speechandhearing/faculty/lobler.asp
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