Multilingual Perspectives on Child Language Disorders

Contributors



Acknowledgments



1. Janet L. Patterson: Child Language Disorders Across Languages, Cultural Contexts, and Syndromes



Section 1 Language Disorders in Specific Clinical Populations



2. Stefka H. Marinova-Todd and Pat Mirenda: Language and Communication Abilities of Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders



3. Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird: Bilingualism and Children with Down Syndrome



4. John Thorne and Truman Coggins: Communication in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Impairment and Intervention



5. Vesna Stojanovik: Multilingual Perspectives on Language in Children with Williams Syndrome



Section 2 Language Disorders in Specific Languages



6. Carol To: Language Disorders in Cantonese-Speaking Children



7. Jane Stokes and Nita Madhani: Perspectives on Working with Preschool Children from Panjabi, Gujarati, and Bengali Speaking Families



8. Elin Thordardottir: Typical Language Development and Primary Language Impairment in Monolingual French-Speaking Children



9. Seyhun Topbas and Ilknur Mavis: Comparing Measures of Spontaneous Speech of Turkish Speaking Children With and Without Language Impairment



10. Barbara L. Rodriguez: Linguistic Variation and Assessment Implications for Spanish-Speaking Children in the United States