Bilingual Language Development & Disorders

in Spanish–English Speakers

Third Edition

edited by Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
San Marcos, California

Excerpted from Bilingual Language Development & Disorders in Spanish–English Speakers, Third Edition edited by Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

ISBN: 9781681253992

About the Editor

Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
Dr. Goldstein is the Chief Academic Officer and Executive Dean at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, San Marcos, CA. Dr. Goldstein is well published in the area of communication development and disorders in Latino children, focusing on speech sound development and disorders in monolingual Spanish and Spanish–English bilingual children. He is the former editor of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and received the Certificate of Recognition for Special Contribution in Multicultural Affairs from ASHA.

Table of Contents

1. The Human Right to Communicate in More Than One Language
   Gabriela Simon-Cereijido
2. Bilingual Language Development of English Learners: Estimating the Growth of Two Languages
   Aquiles Iglesias and Raúl Rojas
3. Bilingual Language Acquisition and the Child Socialization Process
   Kelly Escobar, Julie Smith, Carol Scheffner Hammer, and Barbara Rodríguez
4. Development of Speech Perception and Production in Bilingual Preverbal Infants
   Megha Sundara
5. Cross-Linguistic Influence and Code-Switching
   Johanne Paradis and Adriana Soto-Corominas
6. Bilingual Lexical Development, Assessment, and Intervention
   Janet L. Patterson and Barbara Zurer Pearson
7. Morphosyntactic Development
   Lisa M. Bedore and Solaman J. Cooperson
8. Spanish Child Heritage Speakers: Patterns of Change and Implications for Clinical Practice
   Raquel T. Anderson
9. Grammatical Impairments in Spanish–English Bilingual Children
   María Adelaida Restrepo and Anny Castilla-Earls
10. The Development of Oral Narrative Language Skills and Disorders in Spanish–English Bilingual Children
    Kai Greene and Christine Fiestas
11. Literacy
    Megan Dunn Davison and María R. Brea-Spahn
12. Language and the Educational Setting
    Lisa M. López
13. Speech Sound Development and Disorders
    Christina E. Gildersleeve-Neumann and Brian A. Goldstein
14. Fluency
    Nan Bernstein Ratner and Courtney Byrd
15. Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Approaches to Language Intervention

Chapter Excerpt

The Human Right to Communicate in More Than One Language

Language and communication are essential to being human. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) advocate for children with communication and language disorders that interfere with comprehension and expression. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) mission is to “make effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all.” The right to communication is enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This article protects the right of expression of individuals “without limitation of borders, by any means of expression.” Human rights are universal and indivisible; they apply to everyone, across every home, community, language, and nation.