Communication Development and Disorders in Multicultural Populations

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Agrawal, Y., Platz, E.A., & Niparko, J.K. (2008). Prevalence of hearing loss and differences by demographic characteristics among US adults. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2004. Archives of Internal Medicine, 168(14), 1522–1530.

Allen, R.L., Everett, D., & Elangovan, S. (2004). Preschool hearing screening: Pass/refer rates for children enrolled in a Head Start program in Eatern North Carolina. American Journal of Audiology, 13, 29–38.

Axmear, E., Reichle, J., Alamsaputra, M., Kohnert, K., Drager, K., & Sellnow, K. (2005). Synthesized speech intelligibility in sentences: A comparison of monolingual English-speaking and bilingual children. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 36(3), 244–250.

Ballachanda, B.B. (2001a). Audiological assessment of "We, the foreign born." Newsletter of the ASHA Special Interest Division 14: Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, 7(1), 11–13.

Ballachanda, B.B. (2001b). Meeting the needs of multicultural clients. Advance for Audiologists, 3(5), 50–53.

Bierman, N., & Nungesser, N. (2002). Home remedies used in the treatment of hearing or ear problems. Newsletter of the ASHA Special Interest Division 14: Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, 8(1), 6–8.

Bowd, A.D. (2002). Otitis media: Its health, social and educationl consequences particularly for Canadian Inuit, Métis, and First Nations children and adolescents. Ontario, Canada: Centre of Excellence for Children and Adolescents with Special Needs.

Cheng, L.L., Ling, L.D., Wang, H.S., Pao, L.L., & Chen, Y.C. (2001). Services to the hearing impaired school-age population in Taiwan: A preliminary study.  Speech and Hearing Review, 1, 75–82.

Davis, P.N., Gentry, B., & Dancer, J. (2001). Sickle cell disease and communication disorders. Newsletter of the ASHA Special Interest Division 14: Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, 7(1), 4–8.

Downs, C.R., Stuart, A., & Holbert, D. (2000). Distortion product otoacoustic emissions in normal-hearing children with homozygous sickle cell disease. Journal of Communication Disorders, 33, 111–129.

Eriks-Brophy, A., & Ayukawa, H. (2000). The benefits of sound field amplification in classrooms of Inuit students of Nunavik: A pilot project. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 31(4), 324–335.

Goldstein, B., & Kohnert, K. (2005). Speech, language, and hearing in developing bilingual children: Current findings and future directions. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 36(3), 264–267. 

Gravel, J.S., & Wallace, I.F. (2000). Effects of otitis media with effusion on hearing in the first 3 years of life. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43(3), 631–644.

Hayashi, A., Tamekawa, Y., & Kirtani, S. (2001). Developmental change in auditory preferences for speech stimuli in Japanese infants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 44(6), 1189–1200.

Jones, L., Atkin, K, & Ahmad, W.I.U. (2001). Supporting Asian deaf young people and their families: The role of professionals and services. Disability and Society, 16(1), 51–70.

Jones, R. (2009). Acquisition of information and the utilization of hearing health care services and related hearing aid technologies by parents of deaf and severely hard of hearing children. ECHO, 4(1), 6–23.

Jupiter, T., & Palagonia, C.L. (2001). The Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly Screening Version adapted for use with elderly Chinese American individuals. American Journal of Audiology, 10(2), 99–103.

Kohnert, K., & Goldstein, B. (2005). Speech, language, and hearing in developing bilingual children: From practice to research. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 36(3), 169–171.

Koussi, A., Zafeiriou, D.I., Kontzoglou, G., Tsatra,I., Noussios, G., & Athanassiou, M. (2001). Hearing loss in children with sickle cell. Acto Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica Belgica, 55, 235–239.

Levi, A.V., Boyett-Solano, J., Nicholson, B., & Eisenberg, L.S. (2001). Multilingualism and children with cochlear implants. How multilingualism may influence functional speech perception and language test measures of young recipients of cochlear implants. The Hearing Review, 8(6), 44–49.

Lock, R.H., & Layton, C.A. (2002). Isolating intrinsic processing disorders from second language acquisition.  Bilingual Research Journal, 26, 213–224.

Meric, C., Pham, E., & Chéry-Croze, S. (2000). Validation assessment of a French version of the tinnitus reaction questionnaire: A comparison between data from English and French versions. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43(1), 184–190.

Miller, P.F. (2000). Syntactic and semantic processing in Hebrew readers with prelingual deafness. American Annals of the Deaf, 145(5), 436–448.

Natke, U., & Kalveram, K.T. (2001). Effects of frequency-shifted auditory feedback on fundamental frequency of long stressed and unstressed syllables. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44(3), 577–584.

Nelson, P., Kohnert, K., Sabur, S., & Shaw, D. (2005). Classroom noise and children learning through a second language: Double jeopardy? Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 36(3), 219–229.

Nelson, P.B., & Soli, S. (2000). Acoustical barriers to learning: Children at risk in every classroom. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 31(4), 356–361.

Onakoya, P.A., Nwaorgu, O.G., & Shokunbi, W.A. (2002). Sensorineural hearing loss in adults with sickle cell anemia. African Journal of Medicine & Medical Sciences, 31, 21–24.

Piltcher, O., Cigana, L., Friedriech, J., Ribeiro, F.A., & da Costa, S.S. (2000). Sensorineural hearing loss among sickle cell disease patients from southern Brazil. American Journal of Otolaryngology, 21, 75–79.

Plant, G., Gnosspelius, J., & Levitt, H. (2000). The use of tactile supplements in lipreading Swedish and English: A single-subject study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43(1), 172–183.

Proctor, A., & Ramkissoon, I. (2001). Speech materials for testing hearing of deaf and hard of hearing children from non-English speaking backgrounds. Newsletter of the ASHA Special Interest Division 14: Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, 7(1), 8–10.

Ramkissoon, I. (2001). Speech recognition thresholds for multilingual populations. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 22(3), 158–162.

Ramkissoon, I., Bilgerm R.C., & Proctor, A. (2000). Digit-speech reception thresholds among non-native speakers of English. The ASHA Leader, 5(16), 72.

Ramkissoon, I., Proctor, A., Lansing, C.R., & Bilger, R.C. (2002). Digit Speech Recognition Thresholds (SRT) for non-native speakers of English. American Journal of Audiology, 11(1), 23–28.

Scott, D.M. (2004). An examination of research issues in hearing for children form culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Newsletter of the ASHA Special Interest Division 14: Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, 11(3), 2–12.

Takayanagi, S., Dirks, D.D., Moshfegh, A. (2002). Lexical and talker effects on word recognition among native and non-native listeners with normal and impaired hearing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 45(3), 585–597.

Tur-Kaspa, H., & Dromi, E. (2001). Grammatical deviations in the spoken and written language of Hebrew-speaking children with hearing impairments. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools,  32(2), 79–89.

Von Hapsburg, D., & Peña, E.D. (2002). Understanding bilingualism and its impact on speech audiometry.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 45, 202–213.

Wauters, L.N., Knoors, H.E.T., Vervloed, M..J., & Aarnoutse, C.A.J. (2001). Sign facilitation in word recognition. Journal of Special Education, 35(1), 31–40.

Wong, P.C.M., Perrachione, T.K., Gunasekera, G., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2009). Communication disorders in speakers of tone languages: Etiological bases and clinical considerations. Seminars in Speech and Language, 30(3), 162–173.

Woods, A.G., Pena, E.D., & Martin, F.N. (2004). Exploring possible sociocultural bias on the SCAN-C. American Journal of Audiology, 13, 173–184.