Issue Editor Foreword: Spelling Across Language Systems and Languages
No abstract available (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
From the Editors: About Spelling Across Language Systems and Languages
No abstract available (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: From the Editors Source Type: research
Continuing Education Instructions and Questions
No abstract available (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Providing Interventions That Support Literacy Acquisition in Children With Hearing Loss: What Professionals Need to Know
Today, children with hearing loss are often identified at birth, fitted with advanced hearing technology, and enrolled in family-centered early intervention. Most of these children have the opportunity to enter kindergarten or first grade with language competencies that rival their hearing peers. For these children to be successful communicators ready to learn, professionals serving them and their families—such as early interventionists, speech-language pathologists, and early childhood educators—must understand the developmental, communicative, and educational challenges inherent to childhood hearing loss. Likewise, t...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Interventions for Multilingual Children With Hearing Loss: A Scoping Review
The aim of this article was to (1) provide a scoping review of the literature addressing speech, auditory, language, and literacy interventions in multilingual children with hearing loss, and (2) identify future research directions. The search conducted for this scoping review yielded a total of 27 sources describing 58 intervention approaches for a range of grade levels (from preschool age through school age). The majority of interventions were obtained from sources describing children with hearing loss (n = 35), followed by multilingual children (n = 32), multilingual children with additional needs (n = 22), and finally ...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Guiding Principles and Essential Practices of Listening and Spoken Language Intervention in the School-Age Years
Listening and spoken language (LSL) intervention and education have emerged as the preferred terms representing an intervention perspective that promotes “auditory oral” outcomes for many of today's children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH), including those who are English learners. Practitioners (including speech–language pathologists, educational audiologists, and teachers) working with students who are D/HH require access to evidence-based principles of LSL. A deep understanding of general principles will inform practitioners' development of intervention to promote outcomes for school-aged students who are D...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Facilitating Preliteracy Development in Children With Hearing Loss When the Home Language Is Not English
Prior research shows that preliteracy development of children with a hearing loss from homes where English is not the primary language parallels literacy development in children with hearing loss from monolingual homes. Although there are some parallels, there are also some elements that are unique to children from linguistically diverse, bilingual backgrounds. Understanding these commonalities and differences sets the stage to discuss appropriate interventions to develop language and literacy. Literacy-based interventions used with bilingual children who do not have a hearing loss, and/or with bilingual children with addi...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Impact of Escalating Literacy Demands on English Learners With Hearing Loss
Gainful employment for adults in the United States currently requires high levels of literacy. As challenging as these requirements may be for the workforce at large, for adults who have a hearing loss (HL) and whose first spoken language is not English, the demands are especially problematic. Therefore, it is critical that educators prepare English learner (EL) K-12 students with HL for life beyond school by understanding and addressing the underlying language of curriculum. The authors explore the escalating literacy demands of the workforce and the corresponding spoken and written language demands of more rigorous K-12 ...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Issue Editor Foreword: Language in Children and Adolescents With Hearing Loss Who Learn English as Another Spoken Language
No abstract available (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
From the Editors: About Language Learning by Children and Adolescents With Hearing Loss Who Are Learning More Than One Spoken Language
No abstract available (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: From the Editors Source Type: research
Continuing Education Instructions and Questions
No abstract available (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Renewing Our Cultural Borderlands: Equitable Population Innovations for Communication (EPIC)
The professions of speech–language pathology and audiology provide valuable services for persons with communication, hearing, and feeding/swallowing disabilities. However, from a global perspective, mainstream practice discourses represent values from colonial perspectives (called Northern here). As such, they remain largely inaccessible to most people in the world. We argue, from a South African perspective, for a postcolonial or Southern discourse in alignment with other Africans, Latin Americans, and Asians who historically have had limited opportunities to shape professional practices. We use ideology critique (a dis...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
“Well, You Are the One Who Decides”: Attempting Shared Decision Making at the End of Aphasia Therapy
This article addresses the problem of inherent asymmetry in the clinical discourse between clinical providers, such as speech–language pathologists (SLPs), and persons with aphasia. Speech–language pathologists, communicating as experts, tend to dominate the discourse regarding the course of treatment, particularly with clients with aphasia who may lack the necessary communicative skills to participate in decision making. Such patterns of communication were apparent in a study reported here that involved thematic analysis of the views of 12 SLPs regarding involving people with aphasia in shared decision making and in a...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
“It's Not the Asperger's That Causes the Anxiety, It's the Communication”: Person-Centered Outcomes of Hope and Recovery in a Cultural–Clinical Borderland
This article focuses on a narrative account of a therapeutic journey experienced by 2 of the authors: an individual (P.D.) with a diagnosis in adulthood of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a speech–language pathologist/researcher (I.W.). Instead of adopting a traditional expert clinician treating an impaired patient stance in a highly formalized clinical setting, with concomitant role expectations of power and perceived inequality, a cultural–clinical borderland was coconstructed. The figurative notion of borderland in this context is used to describe a physical and psychological space characterized by a more flexibl...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Constructing and Navigating Cultural Borderlands Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This article explores the challenges and tensions implicit in shifting between cultural roles of Natural Speaker and Aided Communicator using the construct of cultural borderlands. Borderlands are first explored in terms of social participation, focusing on questions such as whether aided communication offers a bridge across borderlands or constitutes a marker of cultural difference and on the question of ownership of aided communication. The borderlands of speaker–listener roles that are negotiated within interactions involving aided communication are then considered. Possible implications of how the construct of cultur...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
