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.phpMira 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.phpLoraine 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

This book is an impressive and essential guide to the bewildering and urgent clinical and theoretical problems posed by bilingual/multilingual aphasia. It presents puzzling and challenging case studies, discussion of resources for testing and therapy, useful small-group studies and insightful overviews, with psycholinguistically and therapeutically sophisticated attention paid to cognitive, social and linguistic factors.

• Introduction - Martin R. Gitterman, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. OblerPart 1 - Broad Considerations1. The Study of Bilingual Aphasia: The Questions Addressed - Loraine K. Obler and Youngmi Park2. Bilingual Aphasia: Neural Plasticity and Considerations for Recovery - Daniel Adrover-Roig, Karine Marcotte, Lilian C. Scherer, and Ana AnsaldoPart 2 - Assessment and Treatment3. What Do We Know About Assessing Language Impairment in Bilingual Aphasia? - Swathi Kiran and Particia M. Roberts4. Morphological Assessment in Bilingual Aphasia: Compounding and the Language Nexus - Gary Libben5. The Clinical Management of Anomia in Bilingual Speakers of Spanish and English - Maria L. Muñoz6. Generalization in Bilingual Aphasia Treatment - Kathryn Kohnert and Michael Peterson7. Cross-Language Treatment Effects in Multilingual Aphasia - Mira Goral8. Language Deficits, Recovery Patterns and Effective Intervention in a Multilingual 16 Years Post-TBI - Daly Sebastian, Usha Dalvi, and Loraine K. OblerPart 3 - Bilingual Language Phenomena9. Bilingual Aphasia and Code-Switching: Representation and Control - Alessandra Riccardi10. Grammatical Category Deficits in Bilingual Aphasia - Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah11. Language Choice in Bilingual Aphasia: Memory and Emotions - Carmit Altman, Mali Gil, and Joel Walters12. Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Bilinguals Across Alphabetical and Non-Alphabetical Scripts - Maximiliano A. Wilson, Karima Kahlaoui, and Brendan S. WeekesPart 4 - Language Pairs13. Morphosyntactic Features in the Spoken Language of Spanish-English Bilinguals with Aphasia - José G. Centeno14. Nonword Jargon Produced by a French-English Bilingual - Nicole Müller and Zaneta Mok15. Number-Processing Deficit in a Bilingual (Chinese-English) Speaker - Nancy Eng16. 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 Context17. Aphasia, Language, and Culture: Arabs in the U.S. - Reem Khamis-Dakwar and Karen Froud18. Towards Cultural Aphasiology: Contextual Models of Service Delivery in Aphasia - Claire Penn