About this Issue: Language in Children and Adolescents with Hearing Loss Who Are Learning English as Another Spoken Language
Dear Readers:
Welcome to Volume 38, Number 3 of Topics in Language Disorders. In it, issue editors, Drs. Linda I. Rosa-Lugo and Barbara J. Ehren worked with authors to address the topic of Language in Children and Adolescents with Hearing Loss Who Are Learning English as Another Spoken Language. The issue begins with a discussion by Rosa-Lugo and Ehren of higher level language skills that are essential for all learners to have access to employment and academic success. Then Alfano and Douglas discuss literature that can guide efforts to facilitate pre-literacy development in children with hearing loss when the family's home language is not English, followed by Soman and Nevins, who outline principles of listening and spoken language practices that can promote support the acquisition of higher language abilities. Guiberson and Crowe, next, provide a scoping review of literature that addresses when children or adolescents have hearing loss, when instruction and intervention need to account for the process of learning English as another language, or both. Finally, Houston, Robertson, and Wray take the perspective of what professionals need to know as they promote listening, spoken language, and literacy for this special population. We recommend this issue for its insights into best practices for facilitating language learning for school-age students, particularly those with hearing loss who are learning more than one spoken language.
Nickola Wolf Nelson, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief
Gary A. Troia, Associate Editor
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