Working with Bilingual Clients with Aphasia

ASHA Policy Documents

• Clinical Management of Communicatively Handicapped Minority Language Populations
• Cultural Competence in Professional Service Delivery
• Position Statement
• Professional Issues Statement
• Knowledge and Skills Needed by Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists to Provide Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
• Issues in Ethics: Cultural Competence

The ASHA Leader Articles

• Bilingualism: Consequences for Language, Cognition, Development, and the Brain
• Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Communication: Research-Praxis Relationships

Additional Resources

• Phonemic Inventories Across Languages
• Useful Websites for Additional Information
• ASHA's Special Interest Groups Perspectives newsletters
• Working With Bilingual Individuals With Aphasia: The Case of a Spanish-English Bilingual Client [PDF]
• Multidisciplinary Evidence to Treat Bilingual Individuals with Aphasia [PDF]
• Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
  October 2005, Volume 12, Number 3
  This issue is devoted to working with bilingual clients in health care settings.

Professional Development

Continuing education programs from ASHA on working with multicultural populations

Consumer Information

• ASHA's Los Derrames Cerebrales (Spanish)
• ASHA's La Afasia (Spanish)
• Hojas "Hablemos de los Ataques al Cerebro" con informacion para el paciente (Spanish)
• National Aphasia Association Aphasia in Other Languages