With the increasing number of Spanish-English bilingual children in the U.S., both SLPs and researchers must understand speech and language developments in these children — and SLPs also need reliable assessment and intervention approaches for serving bilingual children with language disorders. This comprehensive text is one of the few to offer readers in-depth theoretical and practical information on these timely topics. Focusing on children from 3 to 12 years of age, this urgently needed resource brings together more than a dozen top researchers to present developmental data, best assessment practices, and appropriate intervention approaches in the following areas:

• language processing skills
  
  
• lexical development
  
  
• morpho-syntactic development
  
  
• first language loss
  
  
• grammatical impairments
  
  
• semantic development
  
  
• phonological development and disorders
  
  
• narrative development and disorders
  
  
• fluency
  

A concluding chapter provides readers with a framework for appropriate language intervention for bilingual speakers. The chapter outlines the major purposes of intervention for bilingual children with speech and language disorders, explores the debate over which language SLPs should use with bilingual children, and examines ways to promote gains in both languages.

With this research-based text, SLPs will understand the complexity of language development in bilingual children and learn appropriate assessment and intervention approaches.

Section I: Setting the Stage

1. Bilingual Language Development and Disorders: Introduction and Overview
   Brian A. Goldstein
   
   
2. Bilingual Language Acquisition and the Child Socialization Process
   Carol Scheffner Hammer, Adele W. Miccio, and Barbara L. Rodriguez

Section II: Lexical and Semantic Aspects

3. Processing Skills in Early Sequential Bilinguals
   Kathryn Kohnert
   
   
4. Bilingual Lexical Development: Influences, Contexts, and Processes
   Janet L. Patterson and Barbara Zurer Pearson
   
   
5. Semantic Development in Spanish-English Bilinguals: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
   Elizabeth D. Peña and Ellen Stubbe Kester

Section III: From Grammar to Discourse

6. Verbal Morphology and Vocabulary in Monolinguals and Emergent Bilinguals
   Donna Jackson-Maldonado
   
   
7. Morphosyntactic Development
   Lisa M. Bedore
   
   
8. First Language Loss in Spanish-Speaking Children: Patterns of Loss and Implications for Clinical Practice
   Raquel T. Anderson
   
   
9. Grammatical Impairments in Spanish-English Bilingual Children
   María Adelaida Restrepo and Vera F. Gutiérrez-Clellen
   
   
10. Narrative Development and Disorders in Bilingual Children
    Vera F. Gutiérrez-Clellen

Section IV: Speech Characteristics

11. Phonological Development and Disorders
    Brian A. Goldstein
    
    
12. Fluency and Stuttering in Bilingual Children
    Nan Bernstein Ratner

Section V: Intervention

13. Language Intervention with Bilingual Children
    Kathryn Kohnert and Ann Derr

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