Main description:

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.

Contents:

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-Solis, A. Lozano, M. J. Ramirez, and A. Ardila

20. Phonetic Descriptions of Speech Production in Bilingual Speakers - F. Bell-Berti

Epilogue - L. K. Obler