Working with Children Experiencing Speech and Language Disorders in a Bilingual Context: A Home Language Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367646301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 296 str.

Sean Pert

Opis

This resource provides evidence-based and practical guidance for professionals working with bilingual and multilingual children who experience SLCD. It shows how to identify diversity from disorder and introduces effective approaches in line with the best clinical practice.

O autorze

Sean Pert (he/him) worked in the NHS for almost 20 years, in one of the few departments to deliver a speech and language therapy service exclusively in the family’s home language or mother tongue. He provided a service to children with the most severe and complex speech and language disorders and shares his specialist knowledge as a trainer both in the UK and internationally. He is currently a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Manchester, and a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist. A three-times joint winner of the Sternberg Award for Clinical Innovation, Sean is the Service Lead for the Voice and Communication Therapy Team, Indigo Gender Service, and Chair of the Board for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. See his full biography at www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/sean.pert.html