Full Description
Documents linguistic features with a clear focus on clinical and practical implications in the diagnosis of speech disorders.
This volume offers speech and language practitioners an accessible entry into the complex linguistic landscape of North America in order to improve the identification of speech disorders in children from diverse language communities.
Written by practitioners and members of these communities, the chapters explore well-known but understudied linguistic varieties of English, Indigenous languages in North America and emerging language varieties. Each chapter describes the culture and context of the language variety and the unique features of its phonology and developmental progression, before detailing the clinical implications for both research and practice.
The book promotes culturally responsive practices and highlights how understanding these linguistic varieties can enhance the accuracy of identification, diagnosis and treatment for children with speech and language disorders. This introduction to the linguistic diversity of North America is key reading for researchers, students and practitioners in speech and language sciences.
Contents
Chapter 1. Yolanda F. Holt: Introduction
Part 1: English, Spanish & Creole Varieties: Established Voices in the North American Chorus
Chapter 2. Monique T. Mills and Tynashia Whitaker: African American English in the Personal Narratives of School-Age Children: An Exploration of Preverbal HAD
Chapter 3. Paul Reed: Appalachian Englishes
Chapter 4. Wilbur V. Bennett, Christine Weill and Claiborne Rice: Cajun English
Chapter 5. Jessica R. Berry: Gullah Geechee
Chapter 6. Shamara A. Peart and Karla N. Washington: Jamaican Creole in Canada
Chapter 7. Clive Forrester: Jamaican Language Influence in Multiethnic Toronto English
Chapter 8. Aris Clemmons: From Us to Us: Mapping Blaxican Spanish Toward Community Solidarity
Chapter 9. Raul F. Prezas and Stephanie N. Becerril: Dialectal Varieties of Spanish: Implications for Multilingual Spanish-English Learners
Part 2: Indigenous Languages: Heritage, Vitality and Resilience
Chapter 10. Joshuaa D. Allison-Burbank, Jessica K. Meese, Leandra Espeseth and Martha Austin-Garrison: Language Acquisition and Use amongst Diné Children and Adolescents: Implications for Speech and Language Assessment
Chapter 11. Davis E. Henderson and Fe D. Murray: Serving the Navajo Community: Speech and Language Considerations
Chapter 12. Shanley Allen, Richard Compton, Kumiko Murasugi, Diana Neill and Donna Patrick: Canadian Inuktut
Chapter 13. Jeffery U. Darensbourg and Baylee Badawy: How to Use and Learn an Indigenous Language: Examples from Ishākkoy
Chapter 14. Elena Babatsouli and Maria Sofia Sotiropoulou: Koasati in Louisiana: A Native American Language and an English Dialect
Chapter 15. Elaine Ballard and Ina Fautua: Assessing Samoan Clients
Part 3: Emerging Varieties: The Always Evolving Linguistic Frontier
Chapter 16. Phillip M. Carter: Miami English in Historical, Demographic and Linguistic Perspective: An Overview for Speech and Language Practitioners
Chapter 17. Mojtaba Taghvafard and Elena Babatsouli: Persian in the Context of North America
Chapter 18. Sea Hee Choi: Basic Characteristics of Native Speakers of Korean Learning English
Chapter 19. Kate Margetson, Van H. Tran, Helen L. Blake, Sarah Verdon, Ben Phạm and Sharynne McLeod: Speech and Language of Vietnamese-English-Speaking Children and their Families
Chapter 20. Carol To and Kevin Kwok Hos So: Cantonese English in North America: An L2 Perspective for Researchers and Clinicians
Chapter 21. Ran An and Qiang Li: Speech-Language Pathology for Mandarin-English Bilinguals in North America
Chapter 22. Ruochen Ning: Acquisition of Catalan by Multilingual Adults with L1 Mandarin: Influence from Previous Language Knowledge and Social Context
Chapter 23. Benjamin Munson and Elizabeth Ancel: Afterword: Understanding the Power of Linguistic Variation
