Aspects of Multilingual Aphasia

Martin R. Gitterman, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at Lehman College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. He has published in the areas of neurolinguistics, aphasia, second language acquisition, bilingualism, and applied linguistics. http://www.lehman.edu//academics/arts-humanities/speech-language-hearing-sciences/gitterman-faculty-page.php Mira Goral, Ph.D. CCC-SLP is a Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at Lehman College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. She also holds an appointment at the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center of the Boston University School of Medicine. She has published in the areas of multilingualism, aphasia, language attrition, and language and cognition in aging. Http://www.lehman.edu/academics/arts-humanities/speech-language-hearing-sciences/mira.php Loraine K. Obler, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, with appointments in both Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Linguistics, as well as at the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center of the Boston University School of Medicine. She has co-authored articles and books on her areas of interest: neurolinguistics, bilingualism and the brain, cross-language study of aphasia, and language in aging. http://web.gc.cuny.edu/speechandhearing/faculty/lobler.asp

Introduction - Martin R. Gitterman, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. Obler



Part 1 - Broad Considerations



1. The Study of Bilingual Aphasia: The Questions Addressed - Loraine K. Obler and Youngmi Park



2. Bilingual Aphasia: Neural Plasticity and Considerations for Recovery - Daniel Adrover-Roig, Karine Marcotte, Lilian C. Scherer, and Ana Ansaldo



Part 2 - Assessment and Treatment



3. What Do We Know About Assessing Language Impairment in Bilingual Aphasia? - Swathi Kiran and Particia M. Roberts



4. Morphological Assessment in Bilingual Aphasia: Compounding and the Language Nexus - Gary Libben



5. The Clinical Management of Anomia in Bilingual Speakers of Spanish and English - Maria L. Muñoz



6. Generalization in Bilingual Aphasia Treatment - Kathryn Kohnert and Michael Peterson



7. Cross-Language Treatment Effects in Multilingual Aphasia - Mira Goral



8. Language Deficits, Recovery Patterns and Effective Intervention in a Multilingual 16 Years Post-TBI - Daly Sebastian, Usha Dalvi, and Loraine K. Obler



Part 3 - Bilingual Language Phenomena



9. Bilingual Aphasia and Code-Switching: Representation and Control - Alessandra Riccardi



10. Grammatical Category Deficits in Bilingual Aphasia - Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah



11. Language Choice in Bilingual Aphasia: Memory and Emotions - Carmit Altman, Mali Gil, and Joel Walters



12. Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Bilinguals Across Alphabetical and Non-Alphabetical Scripts - Maximiliano A. Wilson, Karima Kahlaoui, and Brendan S. Weekes



Part 4 - Language Pairs



13. Morphosyntactic Features in the Spoken Language of Spanish-English Bilinguals with Aphasia - José G. Centeno



14. Nonword Jargon Produced by a French-English Bilingual - Nicole Müller and Zaneta Mok



15. Number-Processing Deficit in a Bilingual (Chinese-English) Speaker - Nancy Eng



16. A Case Study of a Bidialectal (African-American Vernacular English/Standard American English) Speaker with Agrammatism - Jean E. Jones, Martin R. Gitterman, and Loraine K. Obler



Part 5 - Cultural Context



17. Aphasia, Language, and Culture: Arabs in the U.S. - Reem Khamis-Dakwar and Karen Froud



18. Towards Cultural Aphasiology: Contextual Models of Service Delivery in Aphasia - Claire Penn