# Bilingual Language Development & Disorders

## in Spanish–English Speakers

### Third Edition

edited by **Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP**  
University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences  
San Marcos, California

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## Excerpted from Bilingual Language Development & Disorders in Spanish–English Speakers, Third Edition edited by Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP  
ISBN: 9781681253992

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## About the Editor

### Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP  
**University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences**  
Dr. Goldstein is the Chief Academic Officer and Executive Dean at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, San Marcos, CA. Dr. Goldstein is well published in the area of communication development and disorders in Latino children, focusing on speech sound development and disorders in monolingual Spanish and Spanish–English bilingual children. He is the former editor of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and received the Certificate of Recognition for Special Contribution in Multicultural Affairs from ASHA.

## Table of Contents

1. **The Human Right to Communicate in More Than One Language**  
   Gabriela Simon-Cereijido
2. **Bilingual Language Development of English Learners: Estimating the Growth of Two Languages**  
   Aquiles Iglesias and Raúl Rojas
3. **Bilingual Language Acquisition and the Child Socialization Process**  
   Kelly Escobar, Julie Smith, Carol Scheffner Hammer, and Barbara Rodríguez
4. **Development of Speech Perception and Production in Bilingual Preverbal Infants**  
   Megha Sundara
5. **Cross-Linguistic Influence and Code-Switching**  
   Johanne Paradis and Adriana Soto-Corominas  
6. **Bilingual Lexical Development, Assessment, and Intervention**  
   Janet L. Patterson and Barbara Zurer Pearson
7. **Morphosyntactic Development**  
   Lisa M. Bedore and Solaman J. Cooperson
8. **Spanish Child Heritage Speakers: Patterns of Change and Implications for Clinical Practice**  
   Raquel T. Anderson
9. **Grammatical Impairments in Spanish–English Bilingual Children**  
   María Adelaida Restrepo and Anny Castilla-Earls
10. **The Development of Oral Narrative Language Skills and Disorders in Spanish–English Bilingual Children**  
    Kai Greene and Christine Fiestas
11. **Literacy**  
    Megan Dunn Davison and María R. Brea-Spahn
12. **Language and the Educational Setting**  
    Lisa M. López
13. **Speech Sound Development and Disorders**  
    Christina E. Gildersleeve-Neumann and Brian A. Goldstein
14. **Fluency**  
   Nan Bernstein Ratner and Courtney Byrd
15. **Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Approaches to Language Intervention**

## Chapter Excerpt

### The Human Right to Communicate in More Than One Language

Language and communication are essential to being human. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) advocate for children with communication and language disorders that interfere with comprehension and expression. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) mission is to “make effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all.” The right to communication is enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This article protects the right of expression of individuals “without limitation of borders, by any means of expression.” Human rights are universal and indivisible; they apply to everyone, across every home, community, language, and nation.