Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children

In this volume McLeod & Goldstein have assembled a group of international experts who take the reader on a fascinating worldwide tour of the speech of bilingualism and multilingualism. The focus is on understanding how speech sound disorder manifests within the variation and combinations of languages. The perspectives represented together form a comprehensive look at speech acquisition and impairment and should be of great interest to both researchers and clinicians who work with bilinguals.

* Elizabeth Peña, University of Texas at Austin, USA *

This book clearly captures the state of our knowledge on child phonological disorders in multilingual children around the world and the challenges still to be faced with respect to theory building and practice.

* Aquiles Iglesias, Temple University, USA *

The numerous chapters of the book present much more information than expected about the linguistic and practical problems in treating multilingual children with speech sound disorders and the possible outcomes of various linguistic interactions.The principal readers of this book would be practitioners in speech-language pathology, therapist, logopedists, etc. But this volume is not less important for students and researchers interested in linguistics, phonetics and/or phonology who will find here a host of interesting facts and topics for further study.

-- Judith Rosenhouse, SWANTECH Ltd., Israel in The Phonetician, Volume 105-106 (2012 I/II), pp. 121-124

There is still much to be learned with regard to meeting the needs of our multilingual clients, but this text can make a substantial contribution to our practice based on the knowledge available today...this text is a must-read for all those clinicians working with multilingual children.

-- Yvonne Wren, Senior Research Speech and Language Therapist/NIHR Research Fellow, Bristol, UK in Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 29(3) 373–377 (2