Working with Bilingual Clients with Aphasia

ASHA Policy Documents

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

Additional Resources

• ASHA's reading list Bilingualism, ELL, LEP, and ESL
• Phonemic Inventories Across Languages
• Useful Web Sites for Additional Information
• ASHA's Special Interest Divisions Perspectives newsletter
• Working With Bilingual Individuals With Aphasia: The Case of a Spanish-English Bilingual Client 
• Multidisciplinary Evidence to Treat Bilingual Individuals with Aphasia 
• 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

• Los Ataques al Cerebro (Spanish)
• Derrame Cerebral (Spanish)
• Afasia (Spanish)
• National Aphasia Association Aphasia in Other Languages