A handbook for practising speech therapists, teachers, psycholo-gists, paediatricians and parents of bilingual children
Being brought up in a bilingual environment provides children with immense opportunities for their future. Unfortunately, many bilingual children are denied this chance because they are unable to learn the languages with the necessary competence and as a result fail at school. Specialists working with or coming into contact with bilingual children who have speech or language problems need greater understanding of how they can assess their linguistic proficiency, differ-entiate between learner language and speech problems, advise parents and car-ry out therapy effectively.
In addition to general background information on bilingual language acquisition, this book provides new and interesting approaches to understanding how lan-guage problems arise and how they can be avoided. The author sets out a tried and tested therapeutic concept for bilingual learners with incomplete language acquisition. Material in several languages for diagnosis and parental counselling, which has proved invaluable in practice, facilitate the diagnosis, counselling and therapy of bilingual children with speech and language problems.
Being brought up in a bilingual environment provides children with immense opportunities for their future. Unfortunately, many bilingual children are denied this chance because they are unable to learn the languages with the necessary competence and as a result fail at school. Specialists working with or coming into contact with bilingual children who have speech or language problems need greater understanding of how they can assess their linguistic proficiency, differ-entiate between learner language and speech problems, advise parents and car-ry out therapy effectively.
In addition to general background information on bilingual language acquisition, this book provides new and interesting approaches to understanding how lan-guage problems arise and how they can be avoided. The author sets out a tried and tested therapeutic concept for bilingual learners with incomplete language acquisition. Material in several languages for diagnosis and parental counselling, which has proved invaluable in practice, facilitate the diagnosis, counselling and therapy of bilingual children with speech and language problems.
