Research in the field of aphasiology has concentrated on a limited sample of the population. The language representation theories put forth have systematically been based on the observation of subjects who were adult, monolingual, right-handed, using an alphabetic code, etc. Bilingual individuals, ideographic code users, and children, for example, were placed in separate categories, excluded from the typical aphasic population.

Theory and research in aphasiology have typically concentrated on a limited population--right-handed adult monolinguals whose language uses an alphabetic code. Bilingual individuals, ideographical code users, and children (among others) have been separated out. This book examines the available data from these "atypical" aphasics, asking whether what makes them different has a significant effect on language representation and processing in the brain. Each chapter reviews literature pertinent to a given population and explores whether (and potentially how) these populations differ from the...