Communication Disorders in Spanish Speakers : : Theoretical, Research and Clinical Aspects / / ed. by José G. Centeno, Raquel T. Anderson, Loraine K. Obler.

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• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Raquel T.,; Ansaldo, Ana Inés,; Ardila, Alfredo,; Bell-Berti, Fredericka,; Brozgold, Alizah Z.,; Castilla, Anny Patricia,; Centeno, José G.,; Conboy, Barbara T.,; Datta, Hia,; Gingerich, Willard,; Gitterman, Martin R.,; Goldstein, Brian A.,; Ijalba, Elizabeth,; Iribarren, I. Carolina,; Jackson-Maldonado, Donna,; Kan, Pui Fong,; Kayser, Hortencia,; Kohnert, Kathryn,; Lozano, Azucena,; Marcotte, Karine,; Obler, Loraine K.,; Ostrosky-Solís, Feggy,; Pietrosemoli, Lourdes G.,; Ramírez, Maura J.,; Restrepo, María Adelaida,; Reyes, Belinda A.,; Weekes, Brendan Stuart,
• HerausgeberIn: Anderson, Raquel T.,; Centeno, José G.,; Obler, Loraine K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Communication Disorders Across Languages
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Preliminary Considerations -- Chapter 1. Contrastive Analysis between Spanish and English -- Chapter 2. English Language Learners: Literacy and Biliteracy Considerations -- Chapter 3. Bilingual Development and Communication: Implications for Clinical Language Studies -- Chapter 4. Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism -- Chapter 5. Sociocultural, Societal, and Psychological Aspects of Bilingualism: Variables, Interactions, and Therapeutic Implications in Speech-Language Pathology -- Chapter 6. Cross-linguistic Research: The Convergence of Monolingual and Bilingual Data -- Chapter 7. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language Disorders among Spanish Speakers -- Chapter 8. Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Clinical Communication Research with Hispanic Populations -- Part 2: Research in Children: Conceptual, Methodological, Empirical, and Clinical Considerations -- Chapter 9. Exploring the Grammar of Spanish-speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment -- Chapter 10. Language Elicitation and Analysis as a Research and Clinical Tool for Latino Children -- Chapter 11. Utterance Length Measures for Spanish-speaking Toddlers: The Morpheme versus Word Issue Revisited -- Chapter 12. Lexical Skills in Young Children Learning a Second Language: Methods, Results, and Clinical Applications -- Chapter 13. Measuring Phonological Skills in Bilingual Children: Methodology and Clinical Applications -- Part 3: Research in Adults: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Implications -- Chapter 14. Prepositional Processing in Spanish Speakers with Aphasia: The Role of Semantic Value and Amount of Contextual Information -- Chapter 15. Cohesion in the Conversational Samples of Broca’s Aphasic Individuals: Theoretical and Clinical Implications -- Chapter 16. Language Switching in the Context of Spanish–English Bilingual Aphasia -- Chapter 17. Description and Detection of Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Spanish -- Chapter 18. Cross-linguistic Aspects of Dyslexia in Spanish–English Bilinguals -- Chapter 19. Neuropsychological Profile of Adult Illiterates and the Development and Application of a Neuropsychological Program for Learning to Read -- Chapter 20. Phonetic Descriptions of Speech Production in Bilingual Speakers: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Considerations -- Epilogue -- Index