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Edited by: Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D.

A book for professionals who work with bilingual children who need a solid understanding of this populations speech and language development, as well as reliable assessment and intervention approaches for serving English-learning children with language disorders. Focusing on early to middle childhood, this research-based resource brings together more than a dozen top researchers of language development and disorders to present developmental data, best assessment practices, and appropriate intervention approaches in the following areas:

• Bilingual language acquisition and socialization
• Morphosyntactic development
• Grammatical impairments
• Phonological development and disorders
• Phonological development and disorders
• Narrative development and disorders
• Language processing skills
• Lexical development
• First language loss
• Semantic development
• Fluency and stuttering

The final chapter provides a framework for language intervention for bilingual speakers and examines ways to promote gains in both languages. With this comprehensive resource, speech-language pathologists, researchers, language instructors, and graduate students will be able understand the complexity of language development in bilingual children and learn about appropriate assessment and intervention practices.

Author

Brian A Goldstein, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Audience

Speech pathologists, teachers, ESL & ELL specialists.