Expressive morphosyntactic skills in bilingual
Spanish-English speakers with aphasia
This study focuses on a preliminary examination of spoken discourse
in bilingual Spanish-English speakers with agrammatic
aphasia.
Related Publications
Centeno, J.G. (2012). Morphosyntactic expressive features in
Spanish-English bilinguals with aphasia. In Gitterman, M., Goral,
M., & Obler, L. K. (Eds.), Aphasia in multilingual
speakers (pp. 207-223). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual
Matters.
Centeno, J.G., & Anderson, R. T. (2011). A preliminary
comparison of verb tense production in Spanish speakers with
expressive restrictions. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics,
25, 864-880.
Assessing speech-language pathology services for
culturally and linguistically diverse adults in
neurorehabilitation
This survey investigation, a final, larger phase that
extends earlier pilot results of this research (Centeno,
2009), assesses the extent of training, knowledge, and
cultural awareness that licensed SLPs have to provide diagnostic
and therapeutic services to culturally and linguistically diverse
(CLD) adults in neurorehabilitation, particularly bilingual
individuals.
Funding
Pilot Phase: Seed Grant Program, Office of Grants and
Sponsored Research, and a Summer Research Grant, Office of the
Provost, St. John’s University, Queens, NY.
Final Phase: The Office of Multicultural Affairs, American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Related Publications
Centeno, J. G. (2009). Issues and principles in service delivery to
communicatively-impaired minority bilingual adults in
neurorehabilitation. Seminars in Speech and Language, 30
(3), 139-153.