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by Elena Babatsouli (Editor), Yolanda F. Holt (Editor), Karla N. Washington (Editor)
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.
Author Biography
Elena Babatsouli is Associate Professor and the Blanco/BORSF Endowed Professor in Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech and co-edits the Multilingual Matters book series Communication Disorders Across Languages.
Yolanda F. Holt is an Independent Researcher and Senior Scientist of PPSS The Holt Lab Sociophonetic Acoustic Research Group in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. She is the Associate Editor for both Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters.
Karla N. Washington is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at University of Toronto, Canada. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools and an invited member of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech.
