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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 ArizonaTimely 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 LondonTable 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

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a broad overview of current work in aphasia in individuals who speak more than one language. With contributions from many of the leading researchers in the field, the material included, both experimental work and theoretical overviews, should prove useful to both researchers and clinicians. The book should also appeal to a broader audience, including all who have an interest in the study of language disorders in an increasingly multicultural/multilingual world (e.g. students of speech-language pathology and linguistics). The areas of multilingual aphasia addressed in this collection include assessment and treatment, language phenomena (e.g. code-switching), particular language pairs (including a bidialectal study), and the role of cultural context.Trade ReviewThis book is an impressive and essential guide to the bewildering and urgent clinical and theoretical problems posed by bilingual/multilingual aphasia. It presents puzzling and challenging case studies, discussion of resources for testing and therapy, useful small-group studies and insightful overviews, with psycholinguistically and therapeutically sophisticated attention paid to cognitive, social and linguistic factors. -- Lise Menn, University of Colorado, USAIn the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase of research on the science of bilingualism, recognizing that in much of the world, bilingualism is a common rather than exceptional circumstance. The present volume provides an exciting synthesis of the latest findings on bilingual aphasia, drawing implications for clinical assessment and treatment, and also for theoretical claims about language, the mind, and the brain. -- Judith Kroll, Pennsylvania State University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction - Martin R. Gitterman, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. Obler Part 1 - Broad Considerations 1. The Study of Bilingual Aphasia: The Questions Addressed - Loraine K. Obler and Youngmi Park 2. Bilingual Aphasia: Neural Plasticity and Considerations for Recovery - Daniel Adrover-Roig, Karine Marcotte, Lilian C. Scherer, and Ana Ansaldo Part 2 - Assessment and Treatment 3. What Do We Know About Assessing Language Impairment in Bilingual Aphasia? - Swathi Kiran and Particia M. Roberts 4. Morphological Assessment in Bilingual Aphasia: Compounding and the Language Nexus - Gary Libben 5. The Clinical Management of Anomia in Bilingual Speakers of Spanish and English - Maria L. Muñoz 6. Generalization in Bilingual Aphasia Treatment - Kathryn Kohnert and Michael Peterson 7. Cross-Language Treatment Effects in Multilingual Aphasia - Mira Goral 8. Language Deficits, Recovery Patterns and Effective Intervention in a Multilingual 16 Years Post-TBI - Daly Sebastian, Usha Dalvi, and Loraine K. Obler Part 3 - Bilingual Language Phenomena 9. Bilingual Aphasia and Code-Switching: Representation and Control - Alessandra Riccardi 10. Grammatical Category Deficits in Bilingual Aphasia - Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah 11. Language Choice in Bilingual Aphasia: Memory and Emotions - Carmit Altman, Mali Gil, and Joel Walters 12. Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Bilinguals Across Alphabetical and Non-Alphabetical Scripts - Maximiliano A. Wilson, Karima Kahlaoui, and Brendan S. Weekes Part 4 - Language Pairs 13. Morphosyntactic Features in the Spoken Language of Spanish-English Bilinguals with Aphasia - José G. Centeno 14. Nonword Jargon Produced by a French-English Bilingual - Nicole Müller and Zaneta Mok 15. Number-Processing Deficit in a Bilingual (Chinese-English) Speaker - Nancy Eng 16. A Case Study of a Bidialectal (African-American Vernacular English/Standard American English) Speaker with Agrammatism - Jean E. Jones, Martin R. Gitterman, and Loraine K. Obler Part 5 - Cultural Context 17. Aphasia, Language, and Culture: Arabs in the U.S. - Reem Khamis-Dakwar and Karen Froud 18. Towards Cultural Aphasiology: Contextual Models of Service Delivery in Aphasia - Claire Penn

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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 ArizonaTimely 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 LondonTable 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

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