A Mixed Methods, Exploratory Clinical Case Study of a Monolingual Spanish Speaker: An Investigation of the Feasibility of the Lidcombe Program in an Unexamined Population.
Considering the cultural and linguistic mismatch between speech-language pathologist (SLP) demographic characteristics and those of a relatively diverse client population, it is likely that monolingual English-speaking SLPs will encounter Spanish-speaking clients who stutter. Treatment efficacy data...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 260 - 295 |
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University of Toronto Press
Jul2026
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