...Amy Hammann; Bhavani Pillay; Marien Alet Graham; Jeannie van der Linde Introduction: Bilinguals constitute a significant portion of speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs) caseloads. Insight into the cross-linguistic effect on voice is needed to guide SLPs to make linguistically appropriate...

...Selma Saad Merouwe; Raymond Bertram; Sami Richa; Kurt Eggers Introduction: Recent studies conducted with bilingual populations have shown that bilingual children who do not stutter (CWNS) are often less fluent than their monolingual counterparts, which seems to affect the accuracy with which speech...

... that adult second language learners produce more disfluencies in their weaker, second language, however, this has not been explored among heritage bilinguals who developed in both languages during childhood. There is a lack of foundational knowledge regarding disfluencies among typically fluent adult...

...Evelien D’haeseleer; Julie Daelman; Feyza Altinkamis; Anne-Sophie Smet; Elise Ryckaert; Kristiane Van Lierde Introduction: In the current literature, there is a well-established necessity for the improvement of bilingual language diagnostics. Nowadays, the majority of clinicians in Belgium still...

.... The study assessed immediate gains after intervention, their maintenance over 2 months, and their effect on diagnostic status at both time points. Methods: Participants included 15 children (57.7 months SD 7.8) diagnosed with developmental language disorder: 3 monolinguals and 12 bilingual immigrants...

... with identification and acquisition of words in a target language and end with the acquisition of grammar based on word order rules. Results: Findings were that bilingual children, with typical language development, were successful at level 4 (the phrase and morphology level) after 2 years of exposure to Swedish...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Mean fundamental frequency Equivalent sound level Voicing amount Vocal doses Voice quality Vocal fatigue Bilingualism Skills in foreign languages are needed in multicultural societies...

...Heila Jordaan This paper reports on the results of an international survey undertaken by the Multilingual Affairs Committee of the IALP, to investigate the intervention provided to bilingual children. Information pertaining to 157 children was obtained from 99 speech-language therapists in 13...

...Heila Jordaan; Gill Shaw-Ridley; Jean Serfontein; Kerry Orelowitz; Nicole Monaghan This study explored the notion that the extent to which language-impaired children can become bilingual depends on the type of language impairment. Single-case studies were conducted on two 7-year-old bilingual...

... environment and disorder is problematic in the absence of normative data on the typical phonological development of bilingual children. Another major issue concerns whether both languages require intervention, or only one because of generalisation to the other language. Treatment efficacy studies of 2...