Communication Disorders in Spanish Speakers: Theoretical, Research and Clinical Aspects (Communication Disorders Across Languages)

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. Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Epilogue Index 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. This book bridges the gap in the literature on Hispanic individuals for student clinicians and professionals in Speech-Language Pathology/Speech Therapy. It links empirical and theoretical bases to evidence-based practices for child and adult Spanish users. This volume provides both students and licensed professionals in speech-language pathology much-needed multidisciplinary bases to implement clinical services with Spanish speakers. Researchers and practitioners from Speech-Language Pathology, Neurolinguistics, Neuropsychology, Education, and Clinical Psychology provide theoretical and empirical grounds to develop evidence-based clinical procedures for monolingual Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English children and adults with communication disorders.