Communication disorders in Spanish speakers
Subtitle: theoretical, research, and clinical aspects
By: edited by José G. Centeno, Raquel T. Anderson and Loraine K. Obler.
Contributors: Centeno, José G., 1958-; Anderson, Raquel Teresa.; Obler, Loraine K.
Series: Communication disorders across languages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Clevedon; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781853599729; 9781853599712
Subjects: Communicative disorders -- Treatment -- United States; Communicative disorders in children -- Treatment -- United States; Bilingualism -- United States; Bilingualism in children -- United States; English language -- Acquisition; Spanish language -- Acquisition; Hispanic Americans -- Language; Hispanic American children -- Language; Bilingualism -- Physiological aspects; Communication Disorders -- ethnology -- United States; Hispanic Americans -- United States; Multilingualism -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contrastive analysis between Spanish and English / Raquel T. Anderson and José G. Centeno; title: English language learners: literacy and biliteracy considerations / Hortencia Kayser and José G. Centeno; title: Bilingual development and communication: implications for clinical language studies / José G. Centeno; title: Neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism / Martin R. Gitterman and Hia Datta; title: Sociocultural, societal, and psychological aspects of bilingualism: variables, interactions, and therapeutic implications in speech-language pathology / Alizah Z. Brozgold and José G. Centeno; title: Cross-linguistic research: the convergence of monolingual and bilingual data / Raquel T. Anderson; title: The cognitive neuropsychology of language disorders among Spanish speakers / Brendan Stuart Weekes; title: Ethical and methodological considerations in clinical communication research with Hispanic populations / José G. Centeno and Willard Gingerich; title: Exploring the grammar of Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment / Raquel T. Anderson; title: Language elicitation and analysis as a research and clinical tool for Latino children / María Adelaida Restrepo and Anny Patricia Castilla; title: Utterance length measures for Spanish-speaking toddlers: the morpheme vs. word issue revisited / Donna Jackson-Maldonado and Barbara T. Conboy; title: Lexical skills in young children learning a second language: methods, results, and clinical applications / Kathryn Kohnert and Pui Fong Kan; title: Measuring phonological skills in bilingual children: methodology and clinical applications / Brian A. Goldstein; title: Prepositional processing in Spanish speakers with aphasia: the role of semantic value and amount of contextual information / Belinda A. Reyes; title: Cohesion in the conversational samples of Broca's aphasic individuals: theoretical and clinical implications / Lourdes G. Pietrosemoli; title: Language switching in the context of Spanish-English bilingual aphasia / Ana Inés Ansaldo and Karine Marcotte; title: Description and detection of acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia in Spanish / I. Carolina Iribarren; title: Crosslinguistic aspects of dyslexia in Spanish-English bilinguals / Elizabeth Ijalba and Loraine K. Obler; title: Neuropsychological profile of adult illiterates and the development and application of a neuropsychological program for learning to read / Feggy Ostrosky-Solís ... [et al.]; title: Phonetic descriptions of speech production in bilingual speakers: empirical evidence and clinical considerations / Fredericka Bell-Berti; title: Epilogue / Loraine K. Obler.