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Verdon, S., Scharff Rethfeldt, W., & Grech, H. (2023).
Supporting the Communication of Unserved and Underserved from Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds. In S. Levy, P. Enderby (Eds.), The Unserved. Addressing Communication Disorders in Unserved and Underserved Populations (pp. 7-18). J&R Press
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This special issue of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica on presentations at the MMAC Composium in Bremen includes the following papers:
→ Collaborative approaches to the support of people with disabilities: the underserved and unserved
→ Does efficacy equal lasting impact? A study of intervention short term gains, impact on diagnostic status, and association with background variables
→ Emergent literacy support for children from marginalized populations
→ A tool for grammatical development assessment in a second language
→ Evaluating personal stroke narratives from bilingual Greek-English immigrants with aphasia
→ Speech and language therapy services for multilingual children with migration background: A cross-sectional survey in Germany
→ Strategies utilized by speech-language-pathologists to effective address the communication needs of migrant school-age children
It is available at: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 2019, Vol. 71, No. 2-3 - Karger Publishers
Scharff Rethfeldt, W., McNeilly, L., Laasonen, M., Meir, N., Abutbul-Oz, H., Smolander, S., Goulart, B., Hunt, E. F. (2024). Assessment of Developmental Language Disorder in Multilingual Children: Results from an International Survey. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 76(2), 127-150. https://doi.org/10.1159/000533139
Verdon, S., Scharff Rethfeldt, W., & Grech, H. (2023).
Supporting the Communication of Unserved and Underserved from Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds. In S. Levy, P. Enderby (Eds.), The Unserved. Addressing Communication Disorders in Unserved and Underserved Populations (pp. 7-18). J&R Press
→ Collaborative approaches to the support of people with disabilities: the underserved and unserved
→ Does efficacy equal lasting impact? A study of intervention short term gains, impact on diagnostic status, and association with background variables
→ Emergent literacy support for children from marginalized populations
→ A tool for grammatical development assessment in a second language
→ Evaluating personal stroke narratives from bilingual Greek-English immigrants with aphasia
→ Speech and language therapy services for multilingual children with migration background: A cross-sectional survey in Germany
→ Strategies utilized by speech-language-pathologists to effective address the communication needs of migrant school-age children
It is available at: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 2019, Vol. 71, No. 2-3 – Karger Publishers
Scharff Rethfeldt, W., McNeilly, L., Laasonen, M., Meir, N., Abutbul-Oz, H., Smolander, S., Goulart, B., Hunt, E. F. (2024). Assessment of Developmental Language Disorder in Multilingual Children: Results from an International Survey. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 76(2), 127-150. https://doi.org/10.1159/000533139
The MMACommittee presented a panel session at the 32nd World Congress of the IALP, Auckland, New Zealand. They are currently planning to present as well at the next World Congress which will be held in August, 2025, in Malta.
Activities include ongoing translation of resources produced by the committee into additional languages. If you are a bilingual clinician willing to contribute to our committee’s work on a voluntary basis, we are looking forward to hearing from you.
Committee members have conducted an international survey of clinicians about their assessment for developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children. The first article was published in Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. https://doi.org/10.1159/000533139
The MMACommittee presented a panel session at the 32nd World Congress of the IALP, Auckland, New Zealand.
Activities include ongoing translation of resources produced by the committee into additional languages. If you are a bilingual clinician willing to contribute to our committee’s work on a voluntary basis, we are looking forward to hearing from you.
Committee members have conducted an international survey of clinicians about their assessment for developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children. The first article was published in Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. https://doi.org/10.1159/000533139
