Working with Bilingual Language Disability

✍ Scribed by Deirdre M. Duncan (auth.), Deirdre M. Duncan (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 220
• Series: Therapy in Practice
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The decision to write this book was taken by a group of practising speech therapists who worked with bilingually language handi­ capped children in the UK. They formed a professional interest group called the Specific Interest Group in Bilingualism because of the need felt by speech therapists to have some forum for discuss­ ing the challenges posed by the assessment and treatment of the bilingually language handicapped. In these regular discussion groups it became clear that similar experiences were encountered by all speech therapists working with these client populations up and down the country. They centred on managing the linguistic diversity, the need for develop­ mental language information, the need for appropriate assessment protocols, the recruitment of bilingual staff and appreciating the positive perspective of working in this field. In the UK the range of languages is extensive. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Ukranian, Hong Kong Chinese, Vietnamese Chinese, Creole, Black English, Bengali, Gujerati and Panjabi cover the main ethnolinguistic groups. In the 1987 ILEA language census over 140 languages were recorded as being spoken in London.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Theory and Practice....Pages 3-17
Issues in Bilingualism Research....Pages 18-35
The Challenge of Working with Minority Languages....Pages 36-49
First Language Panjabi Development....Pages 50-59
First Language Bengali Development....Pages 60-74
Aspects of the Development of Second Language English....Pages 75-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Working with Interpreters....Pages 91-112
Linguistic Assessment Procedures for Bilingual Children....Pages 113-131
Intervention with Bilingual Pre-School Children....Pages 132-153
The Bilingual Child with Special Educational Needs....Pages 154-175
Mainstream Bilingual Schoolchildren: A Model for Remediation....Pages 176-197
Back Matter....Pages 198-212

✦ Subjects

Gynecology