Description
This volume provides much-needed multidisciplinary bases to provide clinical services to Spanish speakers. Researchers and practitioners provide theoretical and empirical grounds to develop evidence-based clinical procedures for monolingual Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English children and adults with communication disorders.
Chapter
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