Loraine K. Obler

Faculty Book: Martin Gitterman, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. Obler

This 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.

This volume provides a broad overview of current work in aphasia in individuals who speak more than one language. Contributions from many leading researchers in the field span experimental work and theoretical perspectives, addressing assessment and treatment, language phenomena (e.g., code-switching), particular language pairs (including a bidialectal study), and the role of cultural context. 

Bridging the gap in the literature on Hispanic individuals for student clinicians and professionals in speech-language pathology/speech therapy, this volume links empirical and theoretical bases to evidence-based practices for child and adult Spanish users; and 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.