Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1: Preliminary Considerations
7. Chapter 1. Contrastive Analysis between Spanish and English 11
8. Chapter 2. English Language Learners: Literacy and Biliteracy Considerations 34
9. Chapter 3. Bilingual Development and Communication: Implications for Clinical Language Studies 46
10. Chapter 4. Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism 57
11. Chapter 5. Sociocultural, Societal, and Psychological Aspects of Bilingualism: Variables, Interactions, and Therapeutic Implications in Speech-Language Pathology 67
12. Chapter 6. Cross-linguistic Research: The Convergence of Monolingual and Bilingual Data 82
13. Chapter 7. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language Disorders among Spanish Speakers 91
14. Chapter 8. Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Clinical Communication Research with Hispanic Populations 99
15. Part 2: Research in Children: Conceptual, Methodological, Empirical, and Clinical Considerations
16. Chapter 9. Exploring the Grammar of Spanish-speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment 113
17. Chapter 10. Language Elicitation and Analysis as a Research and Clinical Tool for Latino Children 127
18. Chapter 11. Utterance Length Measures for Spanish-speaking Toddlers: The Morpheme versus Word Issue Revisited 142
19. Chapter 12. Lexical Skills in Young Children Learning a Second Language: Methods, Results, and Clinical Applications 156
20. Chapter 13. Measuring Phonological Skills in Bilingual Children: Methodology and Clinical Applications 169
21. Part 3: Research in Adults: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Implications
22. Chapter 14. Prepositional Processing in Spanish Speakers with Aphasia: The Role of Semantic Value and Amount of Contextual Information 183
23. Chapter 15. Cohesion in the Conversational Samples of Broca’s Aphasic Individuals: Theoretical and Clinical Implications 198
24. Chapter 16. Language Switching in the Context of Spanish–English Bilingual Aphasia 214
25. Chapter 17. Description and Detection of Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Spanish 231
26. Chapter 18. Cross-linguistic Aspects of Dyslexia in Spanish–English Bilinguals 243
27. Chapter 19. Neuropsychological Profile of Adult Illiterates and the Development and Application of a Neuropsychological Program for Learning to Read 256
28. Chapter 20. Phonetic Descriptions of Speech Production in Bilingual Speakers: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Considerations 276
29. Epilogue 289
30. Index 297