Assessment & Intervention for Communication Disorders in Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Populations

Features:

• Author Henriette Langdon is a multilingual speech-language pathologist with extensive experience working with CLD populations.
• Provides background on the larger identified language and cultural minority groups encountered by most American SLPs, including Hispanics, Blacks, Asian/Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans.
• Considers issues related to dual language development for bilingual students, including language proficiency, dominance, interference, and loss.
• Discusses various facets of language learning in a classroom environment, including selected models of bilingual instruction, and best strategies in second language teaching.
• Examines considerations for planning an assessment including selection of the language to carry out the assessment, procedures to obtain and analyze language when there are standard tests available and when there are not, and a suggested protocol for reporting test results and assessment findings.
• Provides a definition of language disorder in CLD students, strategies for describing the nature of the language disorder, and a protocol for reporting.
• Includes specific intervention strategies for children and adults.
• Presents case studies of five CLD individuals, three students and two adults throughout, allowing you to follow along with their assessment and treatment, illustrating the concepts developed in each chapter.

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