PHONOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF BILINGUAL SPEAKERS

Given the demographic changes currently taking place in the United Sta tes, speech-language pathologists increasingly are being asked to prov ide speech and language services to bilingual speakers. The acquisitio n of more than one language presents unique challenges to speech-langu age pathologists in the assessment of and intervention for phonologica l disorders. This paper provides speech-language pathologists informat ion about common and uncommon phonological patterns across a variety o f languages, the influence of the sound patterns of one language on an other, and guidelines for assessment and intervention.