Description
Book SynopsisSpanish 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.
Trade ReviewTo say that this book is welcomed is without a doubt an understatement. Apparently, from the book’s earliest beginnings, Drs. Centeno, Anderson and Obler chose to focus on the big picture, selecting their contributors to include impressive sampling of the best researchers and thinkers in the field. They have been successful in producing a true Sourcebook, which deserves the attention of anyone who is serious about understanding the special strengths and problems facing language and speech disordered Spanish speakers. This is monumental and desperately needed achievement.
-- Audrey Holland, Ph.D., Regents' Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizona
Timely and important are apt descriptors for Studying Communication Disorder in Spanish Speakers: Theoretical, Research, and Clinical Aspects. The global presence of Spanish speakers, as well as their significant representation in the U.S. population, heralds the need for such an in depth treatment of these topics. With clear focus on clinical interventions for Spanish-speakers with communicative disorders, this volume broadens the dialogue to include life-span cognitive-linguistic and psychosocial perspectives. Readers from multiple disciplines, backgrounds, and interests have reason to look forward to this volume as an often-referred-to and highly valued resource.
-- Joyce L. Harris, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
This landmark volume celebrates the major achievements in research on communication disorders in Spanish speakers. The evidence-based approach to theoretical and clinical question will appeal to speech-language pathologists, cognitive neuropsychologists, applied linguists, educational psychologists and many others. It also sets the standard for future cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic studies of communication disorders.
-- Professor Li Wei, PhD, University of London
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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-Solís, A. Lozano, M. J. Ramírez, and A. Ardila
20. Phonetic Descriptions of Speech Production in Bilingual Speakers – F. Bell-Berti
Epilogue – L. K. Obler
