Martin Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84769-161-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 71, 220 Seiten

Reihe: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity takes a critical perspective on traditional bio-cognitive-social approaches to language disabilities – specific language impairment, communication difficulties, dyslexia and deafness. A socio-cultural approach orientates a reinterpretation of research, educational practices and policies in assessment, teaching and intervention. A Vygotskian framework affords repositioning of assessment, learning and development for language disabilities as they are influenced and shaped by experiences of multilingualism, culture, ethnicity and race. The author, rather than present definitive answers, aims to offer new analyses and extend current understanding of linguistic phenomena fraught by dilemmas of disentangling diversity and disability. The volume serves as a source of reflection and inquiry for students, professionals and policy makers in education and health who are interested in disability and language disabilities in multilingual and multicultural contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Deirdre

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Logopädie, Sprachstörungen, Stimmtherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HNO-Heilkunde, Phoniatrie, Audiologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1 A Socio-cultural Activity Approach: Key Concepts

Chapter 2 Provision for Communication Disabilities in CLD

Chapter 3 Disability and Disabling Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Chapter 4 Bilingual Speech and Language Development and Difficulties

Chapter 5 Literacy, Literacies and Difficulties with Printed Language

Chapter 6 Deafness in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities

Chapter 7 Assessment Approaches: Comparison, Product and Process

Chapter 8 Learning, Teaching, and Intervention

Chapter 9 Collaboration as Inter-professional Learning

Chapter 10 Parents, Families and Children Working with Professionals

Über Autor(innen)

Martin, Deirdre
Deirdre Martin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests include speech, language and literacy disabilities in multilingual contexts, research methods and the relationship between research and professional practice. Her publications include Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (2009, Multilingual Matters).

Deirdre Martin is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK.  She has extensive experience as an educator and researcher with children and families with language disabilities in multilingual societies.  She was a speech and language therapist in the UK and Peru, co-founded the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ special interest group in bilingualism and has been a specialist professional advisor.  She currently leads postgraduate programmes on language disability and dyslexia for professionals working in EAL, EFL and bilingual contexts. She has published and presented widely in the field of language development, disability and bilingualism.