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Individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) occupy complex sociocultural and sociolinguistic territories. They are immersed in spoken language communities but to participate as speakers in conversational interactions, they may rely on atypical communication modes, including systems for generating speech that set them apart…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Sociolinguistics, Speech Communication, Cultural Differences
Pillay, Mershen; Kathard, Harsha – Topics in Language Disorders, 2018
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…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Audiology, Ideology, Criticism
Walsh, Irene P.; Delmar, Patricia; Jagoe, Caroline – Topics in Language Disorders, 2018
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…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Patients, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
de Schonewise, Estella Almanza; Klingner, Janette K. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2012
English language learners (ELLs) are the fastest growing segment of the student population. An understanding of the diversity these students bring to contexts of disciplinary learning is critical to determining how best to teach them. At the secondary level, ELLs are required to learn content and build English language proficiency simultaneously.…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Literacy, English Language Learners, Adolescents
Weiss, Amy L.; Theadore, Geraldine – Topics in Language Disorders, 2011
This article focuses on why and how speech-language pathologists and other professionals can encourage the involvement of parents in teaching social communication skills to their young children. Four main topics are explored: (1) the evidence that many of the children with special needs served by speech-language pathologists and other…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development
Bliss, Lynn S.; McCabe, Allyssa – Topics in Language Disorders, 2008
A study was conducted to examine the misdiagnosis of cultural difference deficits and how mistaking deficits in narrative production for cultural differences can be avoided. Findings reveal the implications for intervention.
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Personal Narratives, Intervention, Clinical Diagnosis
Craig-Unkefer, Lesley; Camarata, Stephen – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: Facilitating language development in children with specific language impairment (SLI) who are learning African American English (AAE) as their first dialect requires clinicians to consider grammatical, lexical, and cultural differences. The purpose of this article is to examine 2 intervention methods that have an extensive history of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intervention, Delayed Speech, Language Impairments
