Research

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.