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Bilingual Children and Communication Disorders: A 30-Year Research Retrospective.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We present a review of the empirical literature at the intersection of bilingualism and pediatric communication disorders. A computer search of six electronic databases was done to identify studies published in English since 1950 that directly investigated some aspect of speech, language, or cognitive performance in developing bilinguals and children with communication impairments. The computer search yielded 116 nonduplicated articles, the first published in 1978. An article review by the authors further reduced the number of studies meeting search criteria to 64. A majority of studies focused on primary developmental lan...
Source: Seminars in Speech and Language - October 24, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Kohnert K, Medina A Tags: Semin Speech Lang Source Type: journals

What constructional profiles reveal about synonymy: A case study of Russian words for sadness and happinessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cognitive Linguistics 20 (2): 367-393 Abstract We test two hypotheses relevant to the form-meaning relationship and offer a methodological contribution to the empirical study of near-synonymy within the framework of cognitive linguistics. In addition, we challenge implicit assumptions about the nature of the paradigm, which we show is skewed in favor of a few forms that are prototypical for a given lexical item. If one accepts the claim of construction grammar that the construction is the relevant unit of linguistic analysis, then we should expect to find a relationship between the meanings of words and the constructions t...
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - July 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals

Early Acquisition of Basic Word Order in JapaneseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics)
Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics - July 1, 2008 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Sugisaki, Koji Source Type: journals

Current Training and Continuing Education Needs of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists Regarding Children with Cleft Lip/Palate.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: When assessing and treating a low-incidence population, such as cleft-related communication disorders, school-based speech-language pathologists need accessible, accurate continuing education resources and collaboration with specialists in this field. PMID: 19901037 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools)
Source: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools - November 9, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Bedwinek AP, Kummer AW, Rice GB, Grames LM Tags: Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch Source Type: journals

Comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Metonyms may be part of vocabulary and treated as synonyms in Williams syndrome, while metaphor engages additional cognitive mechanisms outside language that develop atypically in this disorder. Despite earlier reports that emphasize good language skills, the Williams syndrome language system shows anomalies compared with typical development. PMID: 19874091 [PubMed - in process] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Annaz D, Van Herwegen J, Thomas M, Fishman R, Karmiloff-Smith A, Rundblad G Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Help Restore Hearing Screening for NYC School ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: ASHA Action Alerts - November 15, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Source Type: organizations

Contents Volume 18 (2007)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cognitive Linguistics 18(4): 583-585 (Source: Cognitive Linguistics)
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - December 4, 2007 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals

Speech disorders in neurofibromatosis type 1: a sample survey.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: The results indicate that speech difficulties are an area of interest in the NF1 population. Further research to elucidate these findings is needed. PMID: 19900076 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 10, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Cosyns M, Vandeweghe L, Mortier G, Janssens S, Van Borsel J Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, Syntax, and Discourse in the Acquisition of European PortugueseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics)
Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics - July 1, 2008 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Santos, Ana Lúcia Source Type: journals

Language Variation and Child Language Acquisition: Laying Ground for Evaluating Parametric ProposalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics)
Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics - July 1, 2008 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Isobe, Miwa Source Type: journals

Premodifier order in English nominal phrases: A semantic accountEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cognitive Linguistics 20 (2): 301-340 Abstract The article starts from the description of premodification in English nominal phrases as structured in four zones, given in Quirk and colleagues (A Comprehensive Grammar of Contemporary English, Longman, 1985). The argument is that one explanation for the zones and the zone order is in premodifiers' types of meaning (“semantic structure”), following the analysis of meaning types in Cruse (Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics, Oxford University Press, 2004). Semantic structure is distinguished from content; different senses of words can have the ...
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - July 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals

Pronoun co-referencing errors: Challenges for generativist and usage-based accountsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study tests accounts of co-reference errors whereby children allow “Mama Bear” and “her” to co-refer in sentences like “Mama Bear is washing her” (Chien and Wexler, Language Acquisition 1: 225–295, 1990). 63 children aged 4;6, 5;6 and 6;6 participated in a truth-value judgment task augmented with a sentence production component. There were three major finding: 1) contrary to predictions of most generativist accounts, children accepted co-reference even in cases of bound anaphora e.g., “Every girl is washing her” 2) contrary to Thornton and Wexler (Principle B, VP Ellipsis and Interpretation in Child ...
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - August 14, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals

A Cognitive Grammar account of time motion ‘metaphors’: A view from JapaneseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article focuses on motion metaphors of time and complements Moore's (Cognitive Linguistics 17: 199–244, 2006) analysis, which insightfully discusses time metaphors, from the standpoint of Japanese data. The present paper argues that time metaphors should be analyzed in terms of Langacker's (Observations and speculations on subjectivity, John Benjamins, 1985, Cognitive Linguistics, 1: 5–38, 1990a, Concept, Image, and Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Grammar, Mouton de Gruyter, 1990b) subjective/objective construal if Japanese data are considered. More specifically, the present analysis classifies time metaphors in te...
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - July 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals

Voice as a tool communicating intentions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract The ability to understand speakers' intentions is examined for typically developing children (TDC), children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Four types of spoken phrases, expressing praise, sarcasm, blame, and banter, were presented, and subjects were asked to judge if the speaker praises you or not, or if she blames you or not. The children could correctly judge the speaker's intention for congruent phrases such as praise and blame. TDC younger than 8 years had significantly lower correct percent compared to the TDC older than them for t...
Source: Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology. - November 17, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Imaizumi S, Furuya I, Yamasaki K Tags: Logoped Phoniatr Vocol Source Type: journals

Contents Volume 20 (2009)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cognitive Linguistics 20 (4): 809-811 (Source: Cognitive Linguistics)
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - October 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals

Procedural and declarative memory in children with and without specific language impairment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The results were interpreted to suggest an uneven profile of memory functioning in specific language impairment. On measures of declarative memory, specific language impairment appears to be associated with difficulties learning verbal information. At the same time, procedural memory is also appears to be impaired. Collectively, this study indicates multiple memory impairments in specific language impairment. PMID: 19900077 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 10, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lum JA, Gelgic C, Conti-Ramsden G Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

The Communication Attitude Test (CAT-S): normative values for 220 Swedish children.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The norm values of CAT-S could be used for comparison of scores from Swedish children with speech disorders. The CAT-S is easy to administer and could be used either in a group setting for research purpose or individually at the clinic. PMID: 19874090 [PubMed - in process] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Johannisson TB, Wennerfeldt S, Havstam C, Naeslund M, Jacobson K, Lohmander A Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Cross-Linguistic Universals in Reading Acquisition with Applications to English-Language Learners with Reading Disabilities.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is a considerable gap in English reading achievement between English-language learners and native speakers in the United States. Differentiation of whether English language learners' struggles are symptomatic of reading disability or related to second language acquisition is often challenging. These issues highlight the need for increased insight into reading development and disability in this population. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of cross-linguistic universals in reading acquisition, how reading disabilities manifest in various languages, and whether diagnostic and instructional appro...
Source: Seminars in Speech and Language - October 24, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Gorman BK Tags: Semin Speech Lang Source Type: journals

Multicultural Issues in Test Interpretation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, we maintain that there will never be a perfect test or set of tests to adequately assess the communication skills of a bilingual individual. This is not surprising because we have yet to develop an ideal test or set of tests that fits monolingual Anglo speakers perfectly. Tests are tools, and the speech-language pathologist needs to know how to use those tools most effectively and equitably. The goal of this article is to provide such guidance. PMID: 19851953 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Seminars in Speech and Language)
Source: Seminars in Speech and Language - October 24, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Langdon HW, Wiig EH Tags: Semin Speech Lang Source Type: journals

Testing Bilingual Speakers: Challenges and Potential SolutionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Semin Speech Lang 2009; 30: 217-218DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1241720© Thieme Medical PublishersGet connected:Table of contents | FREE: Full text (Source: Seminars in Speech and Language)
Source: Seminars in Speech and Language - October 23, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: PREFACE Source Type: journals