This position paper is an aspirational document for individuals who strive for the
development of policies and best practices for multilingual and/or multicultural children with …

A major challenge for the speech-language pathology profession in many cultures is to
address the mismatch between the “linguistic homogeneity of the speech-language …

Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children explores both multilingual and
multicultural aspects of children with speech sound disorders. The 30 chapters have been …

Background The speech and language therapy profession is required to provide services to
increasingly multilingual caseloads. Much international research has focused on the …

For all children with speech sound disorders (SSD), receiving intervention is crucial for not
only improving intelligibility, but also for later academic success, because SSDs are linked to …

Individuals and societies benefit when children are supported to become competent
communicators. Most children learn to speak one, two, or multiple languages competently …

These characteristics specifically related to the child's communicative disorder are
considered within the broader context of the child's social needs, including the cultural and …

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are working with an increasing number of families
from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as the world's population continues to …

Speech-language pathologists play important roles in supporting people to be competent
communicators in the languages of their communities. However, with over 7000 languages …

The linguist David Crystal once raised the question of whether or not a monolingual English-
speaking speech-language pathologist (SLP) would ever need to know something about …