The Hispanic child : speech, language, culture, and education

The Hispanic child : speech, language, culture, and education /

"The Hispanic Child: Speech, Language, Culture, and Education" addresses the issues and struggles of today's Hispanic school-age children. As Hispanics and Latinos are the fastest growing minority populations in the U.S., school-based speech-language pathologists and special educators...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brice, Alejandro E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, ©2002.
Subjects:
Hispanic American children > Education.
Language arts > United States.
Hispanic American children > Social conditions.
Education, Bilingual > United States.
Enfants américains d'origine latino-américaine > Éducation.
Arts du langage > États-Unis.
Enfants américains d'origine latino-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Education, Bilingual.
Language arts.
Erziehung
Kind
Zweisprachigkeit
United States.
Hispanos.
Table of Contents:
  • Demographic Changes
  • Access to Health Care
  • Attitudes of Hispanics in the United States
  • Schooling and Hispanic Students
  • Needs of Hispanic Students
  • Classroom Implications
  • Changes in U.S. Schools
  • Immigration/Migration
  • Immigration Waves
  • Demographic Changes in U.S. Schools
  • At-risk Factors
  • Civil Rights Legislation
  • Civil Rights Litigation
  • Special Education Legislation and Litigation
  • Bilingual Legislation and Litigation
  • The Spanish Language
  • Heterogeneity of Hispanics
  • Cultural Influences
  • Income and Educational Attainment
  • Religion
  • Family Values
  • Language Considerations for SLPs
  • Spanish Versus English Phonetics
  • Spanish Versus English Phonology
  • Dialects of Spanish
  • Spanish Morphological and Syntactic Development
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Normal Processes of Second Language Acquisition
  • Bilingualism
  • Definition of Language Proficiency
  • Language Transfer and Interference
  • Fossilization
  • Interlanguage
  • Silent Period
  • Code Switching, Code Mixing, Borrowed Words
  • Language Gains and Attrition (Loss)
  • Myths About Bilingual Students
  • Similarities and Differences in First and Second Language Acquisition
  • Separate Versus Single Language Systems
  • Single Systems
  • Separate Systems
  • Distinguishing a Difference from a Disorder
  • Contextual Information
  • Teacher Pragmatics
  • Observation
  • Environmental Influences
  • Working with Hispanic Parents and Children: General Characteristics
  • Modifying Assessment Procedures
  • Modifying Tests.

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