Communication disorders in Spanish speakers : theoretical, research and clinical aspects / / edited by Jose G. Centeno, Raquel T. Anderson and Loraine K. Obler.

• Superior document: Communication disorders across languages
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Centeno, Jose G.; Anderson, Raquel Teresa.; Obler, Loraine K.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Communication disorders across languages.
• Physical Description: ix, 310 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Contrastive analysis between Spanish and English / Raquel T. Anderson and Jose G. Centeno -- English language learners: literacy and biliteracy considerations / Hortencia Kayser and Jose G. Centeno -- Bilingual development and communication: implications for clinical language studies / Jose G. Centeno -- Neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism / Martin R. Gitterman and Hia Datta -- Sociocultural, societal, and psychological aspects of bilingualism: variables, interactions, and therapeutic implications in speech-language pathology / Alizah Z. Brozgold and Jose G. Centeno -- Cross-linguistic research: the convergence of monolingual and bilingual data / Raquel T. Anderson -- The cognitive neuropsychology of language disorders among Spanish speakers / Brendan Stuart Weekes -- Ethical and methodological considerations in clinical communication research with Hispanic populations / Jose G. Centeno and Willard Gingerich -- Exploring the grammar of Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment / Raquel T. Anderson -- Language elicitation and analysis as a research and clinical tool for Latino children / Maria Adelaida Restrepo and Anny Patricia Castilla -- Utterance length measures for Spanish-speaking toddlers: the morpheme versus word issue revisited / Donna Jackson-Maldonado and Barbara T. Conboy -- Lexical skills in young children learning a second language: methods, results, and clinical applications / Kathryn Kohnert and Pui Fong Kan -- Measuring phonological skills in bilingual children: methodology and clinical applications / Brian A. Goldstein -- Prepositional processing in Spanish speakers with aphasia: the role of semantic value and amount of contextual information / Belinda A. Reyes -- Cohesion in the conversational samples of Broca's aphasic individuals: theoretical and clinical implications / Lourdes G. Pietrosemoli -- Language switching in the context of Spanish-English bilingual aphasia / Ana Ines Ansaldo and Karine Marcotte -- Description and detection of acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia in Spanish / I. Carolina Iribarren -- Cross-linguistic aspects of dyslexia in Spanish-English bilinguals / Elizabeth Ijalba and Loraine K. Obler -- Neuropsychological profile of adult illiterates and the development and application of a neuropsychological program for learning to read / Feggy Ostrosky-Solis ... [et al.] -- Phonetic descriptions of speech production in bilingual speakers: empirical evidence and clinical considerations / Fredericka Bell-Berti -- Epilogue / Loraine K. Obler.