It goes without saying that our assessments of and interventions for children with speech
sound disorder rest on the reliability and validity of our transcriptions of their speech. An …

Historically, the focus of studies of speech acquisition in bilingual children was to compare
their skills to monolingual children (eg Watson, 1991). The finding from these studies was …

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) traditionally rely on the use of standardized
assessments to determine whether a child has a speech sound disorder. Standardized …

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in many areas now require skills in multilingual,
multidialectal phonological assessment. As the number of regional home languages or …

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 …

The past few decades have seen rapid changes in speech-language pathology in terms of
technology, information on speech production and perception, and increasing levels of …

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 …

Part of the task of acquiring a language involves learning which speech sounds are used in
the language and how these sounds are organized. For most children, this task is quite …

This book brings together empirical studies on phonological acquisition and disorder of
monolingual children speaking different languages. The research findings provide much …

The majority of the world is multilingual and most children learn to speak the languages
within their communities with adultlike competence. While there are a range of definitions of …