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

321 Pages·2007·3.79 MB·English

by  Jose G. Centeno

Communication Disorders in Spanish Speakers
Communication Disorders Across Languages
Series Editors:Dr Nicole Müller and Dr Martin Ball,University of Louisiana at
Lafayette, USA
While the majority of work in communication disorders has focused on English, there
has been a growing trend in recent years for the publication of information on
languages other than English. However, much of this is scattered through a large
number of journals in the field of speech pathology/communication disorders, and
therefore, not always readily available to the practioner, researcher and student. It is
the aim of this series to bring together into book form surveys of existing studies on
specific languages, together with new materials for the language(s) in question. We
also envisage a series of companion volumes dedicated to issues related to the
crosslinguistic study of communication disorders. The series will not include English
(as so much work is readily available), but will cover a wide number of other
languages (usually separately, though sometimes two or more similar languages may
be grouped together where warranted by the amount of published work currently
available). We envisage being able to solicit volumes on languages such as
Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian,
Croatian, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, North Indian languages in the UK
context, Celtic languages, Arabic and Hebrew among others.
Other Books of Interest
Bilingual Children’s Language and Literacy Development
Roger Barnard and Ted Glynn (eds)
Bilingual Minds: Emotional Experience, Expression and Representation
Aneta Pavlenko (ed.)
Culture-Specific Language Styles: The Development of Oral Narrative and Literacy
Masahiko Minami
Developing in Two Languages: Korean Children in America
Sarah J. Shin
Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts
Kees de Bot and Sinfree Makoni
Language Acquisition: The Age Factor (2nd ed)
David Singleton and Lisa Ryan
Making Sense in Sign: A Lifeline for a Deaf Child
Jenny Froude
Phonological Development in Specific Contexts: Studies of Chinese-Speaking
Children
Zhu Hua
Phonological Development and Disorders in Children: A Multilingual Perspective
Zhu Hua and Barbara Dodd (eds)
Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood
Paddy Ladd
For more details of these or any other of our publications, please contact:
Multilingual Matters, Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall,
Victoria Road, Clevedon, BS21 7HH, England
http://www.multilingual-matters.com
Communication Disorders Across Languages
Series Editors: Nicole Müller and Martin Ball
Communication Disorders
in Spanish Speakers
Theoretical, Research
and Clinical Aspects
Edited by
José G. Centeno, Raquel T. Anderson
and Loraine K. Obler
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD
Clevedon • Buffalo (cid:127) Toronto
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Communication Disorders in Spanish Speakers: Theoretical, Research and Clinical
Aspects/Edited by José G. Centeno, Raquel T. Anderson and Loraine K. Obler.
Communication Disorders Across Languages
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Communicative disorders–Treatment–United States. 2. Communicative disorders
in children–Treatment–United States. 3. Bilingualism–United States. 4. Bilingualism in
children–United States. 5. English language–Acquisition. 6. Spanish
language–Acquisition. 7. Hispanic Americans–Language. 8. Hispanic American
children–Language. 9. Bilingualism–Physiological aspects.
I. Centeno, José G. II. Anderson, Raquel Teresa. III. Obler, Loraine K. IV. Series.
[DNLM: 1. Communication Disorders–ethnology–United States. 2. Hispanic
Americans–United States. 3. Multilingualism–United States. WL 340.2 C73378 2007]
RC423.C6427 2007
362.196' 855–dc22 2007006872
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Contents
Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Introduction
Jose´G. Centeno, Loraine K. Obler, and Raquel T. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Part 1: Preliminary Considerations
1 Contrastive Analysis between Spanish and English
Raquel T. Anderson and Jose´G. Centeno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
2 English Language Learners: Literacy and Biliteracy
Considerations
Hortencia Kayser and Jose´G. Centeno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
3 Bilingual Development and Communication: Implications
for Clinical Language Studies
Jose´G. Centeno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
4 Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism
Martin R. Gitterman and Hia Datta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
5 Sociocultural, Societal, and Psychological Aspects of
Bilingualism: Variables, Interactions, and Therapeutic
Implications in Speech-Language Pathology
Alizah Z. Brozgold and Jose´G. Centeno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
6 Cross-linguistic Research: The Convergence of
Monolingual and Bilingual Data
Raquel T. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
7 The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language Disorders
among Spanish Speakers
Brendan Stuart Weekes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
8 Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Clinical
Communication Research with Hispanic Populations
Jose´G. Centeno and Willard Gingerich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Part 2: Research in Children: Conceptual, Methodological,
Empirical, and Clinical Considerations
9 Exploring the Grammar of Spanish-speaking Children
with Specific Language Impairment
Raquel T. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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10 Language Elicitation and Analysis as a Research and
Clinical Tool for Latino Children
Marı´a Adelaida Restrepo and Anny Patricia Castilla. . . . . . . . . . . .127
11 Utterance Length Measures for Spanish-speaking Toddlers:
The Morpheme versus Word Issue Revisited
Donna Jackson-Maldonado and Barbara T. Conboy . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
12 Lexical Skills in Young Children Learning a Second Language:
Methods, Results, and Clinical Applications
Kathryn Kohnert and Pui Fong Kan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
13 Measuring Phonological Skills in Bilingual Children:
Methodology and Clinical Applications
Brian A. Goldstein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Part 3: Research in Adults: Empirical Evidence and
Clinical Implications
14 Prepositional Processing in Spanish Speakers with
Aphasia: The Role of Semantic Value and Amount
of Contextual Information
Belinda A. Reyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
15 Cohesion in the Conversational Samples of Broca’s Aphasic
Individuals: Theoretical and Clinical Implications
Lourdes G. Pietrosemoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198
16 Language Switching in the Context of Spanish(cid:1)English
Bilingual Aphasia
Ana Ine´s Ansaldo and Karine Marcotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214
17 Description and Detection of Acquired Dyslexia and
Dysgraphia in Spanish
I. Carolina Iribarren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231
18 Cross-linguistic Aspects of Dyslexia in Spanish(cid:1)English
Bilinguals
Elizabeth Ijalba and Loraine K. Obler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
19 Neuropsychological Profile of Adult Illiterates and
the Development and Application of a Neuropsychological
Program for Learning to Read
Feggy Ostrosky-Solı´s, Azucena Lozano, Maura J. Ramı´rez,
and Alfredo Ardila. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256
20 Phonetic Descriptions of Speech Production in Bilingual
Speakers: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Considerations
Fredericka Bell-Berti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276
Epilogue
Loraine K. Obler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Contributors
Raquel T. Anderson, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing
Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Ana Ine´s Ansaldo, Ph.D., Faculte´ de Me´decine, Universite´ de Montre´al,
Que´bec, Canada
Alfredo Ardila, Ph.D., Department of Communication Sciences and
Disorders, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Fredericka Bell-Berti, Ph.D., Department of Speech, Communication
Sciences, and Theatre, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, USA
Alizah Z. Brozgold, Ph.D., Department of Rehabilitation Medicine,
St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Anny Patricia Castilla, ABD, Department of Speech-Language Patho-
logy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jose´ G. Centeno, Ph.D., Department of Speech, Communication
Sciences, and Theatre, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, USA
Barbara T. Conboy, Ph.D., Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Hia Datta, M.S., Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The
Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
Willard Gingerich, Ph.D., Office of the Provost, Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Teaneck, NJ, USA
Martin Gitterman, Ph.D., Department of Speech-Language-Hearing
Sciences, Lehman College, and Department of Speech and Hearing
Sciences, The GraduateCenter, City University of New York, New York,
NY, USA
Brian Goldstein, Ph.D., Department of Communication Sciences,
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Elizabeth Ijalba, M.Phil., Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences,
TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork,New York,NY,USA
I.CarolinaIribarren,Ph.D.,PostgradoenLingu¨´ısticaAplicada,Universi-
dad Simo´n Bol´ıvar, Caracas, DF, Venezuela
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DonnaJackson-Maldonado,Ph.D.,UniversidadAuto´nomadeQuere´taro,
Quere´taro,Me´xico
PuiFongKan,M.A.,DepartmentofSpeech-Language-HearingSciences,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Hortencia Kayser, Ph.D., Department of Communication Sciences and
Disorders, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA
Kathryn Kohnert, Ph.D., Department of Speech-Language-Hearing
Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Azucena Lozano, Lic., Facultad de Psicolog´ıa, Universidad Nacional
Auto´noma de Me´xico, Me´xico, DF, Me´xico
Karine Marcotte, M.S., Centre de Recherche, Institut Universitaire de
Ge´riatrie de Montre´al, Universite´ de Montre´al, Que´bec, Canada
Loraine K. Obler, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences,
TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNew York,NewYork,NY,USA
Feggy Ostrosky-Solı´s, Ph.D., Facultad de Psicolog´ıa, Universidad
Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico, Me´xico, DF, Me´xico
Lourdes G. Pietrosemoli, Ph.D., Centro de Investigacio´n y Atencio´n
Lingu¨´ıstica, Universidad de Los Andes, Me´rida, Venezuela
Maura J. Ramı´rez, Lic., Facultad de Psicolog´ıa, Universidad Nacional
Auto´noma de Me´xico, Me´xico, DF, Me´xico
M. Adelaida Restrepo, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing
Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
BelindaA.Reyes,Ph.D.,DepartmentofCommunicationDisorders,Our
Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX, USA
BrendanWeekes,Ph.D.,CPsychol,DepartmentofPsychology,Schoolof
Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Acknowledgments
Publication of this volume would not have been possible without the
enormousamount of patience and careful work from a group of people.
We are indebted to all of our contributors who supported this project
sinceitsplanningstagesandthroughoutitsvariousevolutionaryphases.
OurdeepestthankstotheenergeticandsupportiveMultilingualMatters
family, starting with Mike Grover, former head publisher and currently
enjoying his semi-retirement, who, in conjunction with his editorial
advisors,NicoleMu¨llerandMartinBall,welcomedourproposal.Thanks
Nicole for the long hours reading the manuscripts and all of your
challenging comments. Marjukka and Tommy Grover answered our
many questions and Marjukka patiently led us through the initial
developmental processes before Ken Hall guided the production phases
withmeticulouscareandencouragingemails,andKathrynKingshaped
the wide marketing efforts. Jose´ thanks Jeffrey Fagen, his College Dean,
andhiscolleaguesonthefacultyforallowinghimtheteachingreduction
to give attention to this volume and his many other projects. Raquel
thankshercolleaguesintheDepartmentofSpeechandHearingSciences,
especially Karen Forrest and Laura Murray for their continued support
and their belief that working with diverse populations is a necessary
endeavorforourfield.She alsothanksherfamilyfortolerating herlong
daysworkingonthisbook.LorainethanksJose´ andRaquelforengaging
herinworkingonthisbook,andforallthethoughtful,carefulworkthey
haveputinonit.WeallthankBonnieLorenzenatIndianaUniversityfor
assisting with the author index.
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