New book from Brookes Publishing: Bilingual Language Development & Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers by Brian Goldstein, Ph.D.

[Anastasia Worcester]

Bilingual Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers 
Edited by Brian Goldstein, Ph.D.
 

Benefits:
·         This book focuses on the language development of bilingual speakers, not just monolingual speakers.

·         Integrates "best practices" for assessment of Spanish-English bilingual children.

·         The concluding chapter provides a comprehensive focus on language intervention across all domains.



Book Description:
Bilingual Language Development presents the most current information on language development and language disorders of Spanish-English bilingual speakers.  This comprehensive text is one of the few to offer readers in-depth theoretical and practical information on these timely topics. Focusing primarily on children from 4 to 7 years of age, this resource brings together more than a dozen top researchers to present developmental data, best assessment practices, and appropriate intervention approaches in the following areas:

 

  a.. language processing skills 
  b.. lexical development 
  c.. morpho-syntactic development 
  d.. first language loss 
  e.. grammatical impairments 
  f.. semantic development 
  g.. phonological development and disorders 
  h.. narrative development and disorders 
  i.. fluency and stuttering
Table of Contents:
I. Setting the Stage
1.         Bilingual Language Development and Disorders: Introduction and Overview

                        Brian Goldstein

2.         Bilingual Language Acquisition and the Child Socialization Process

                        Carol Scheffner Hammer, Adele W. Miccio, Barbara Rodriguez

II. Lexical and Semantic Aspects
3. Children Learning a Second Language: Processing Skills in Early Sequential Bilinguals 

            Katherine Kohnert

            4.         Bilingual Lexical Development: Influences, Contexts, and Processes

                        Janet L. Patterson, Barbara Zurer Pearson

5.             Semantic Development in Spanish-English Bilinguals: Theory, Assessment, and 

                        Intervention  

                        Elizabeth Peña and Ellen Stubbe Kester
III. From Grammar to Discourse
            6.         Verbal Morphology and Vocabulary in Monolinguals and Emergent Bilinguals

                        Donna Jackson-Maldonado

7.         Morphosyntactic Development

                        Lisa Bedo

            8.         First Language Loss in Spanish-Speaking Children: Patterns of Loss and Implications for Clinical Practice 

            Raquel Anderson

            9.         Grammatical Impairments in Spanish-English Bilingual Children

            María Adelaida Restrepo and Vera F. Gutierrez-Clellen

10.        Narrative Development and Disorders in Bilingual Children 

                        Vera Gutierrez-Clellen

 IV. Speech Characteristics

11.        Phonological Development and Disorders

                        Brian Goldstein

12.        Fluency and Stuttering in Bilingual Children

                        Nan Bernstein Ratner

V. Intervention
13.        Language Intervention with Bilingual Children 

                        Katherine Kohnert and Ann Derr

 



Author Information:

Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences 

at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

 

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September 2004           6 x 9           320 pages

ISBN: 1-55766-687-3/ US $35.00

 

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Anastasia Worcester
Publicity Manager
Brookes Publishing
P.O. Box 10624
Baltimore, MD 21285
410-337-9580
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