Associate Professor Stefka Marinova-Todd has been invited and sponsored by the ASHA Cultural and Linguistic Considerations Across the Discipline committee and the Autism Topic committee to present a seminar on Bilingualism and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Her invited talk will be held on Nov 21st, 2014
Summary of session:
This session was developed by the Convention Program Committee to present a comparison of
language development in bilingual and monolingual children with ASD. Because individuals with
autism have social-interaction difficulties and often language and intellectual impairments as well,
families and practitioners have many questions about bilingualism with this population.
About the ASHA convention:
The 2014 ASHA convention will be held in Orlando, Florida, November 20–22, 2014. Last year, almost 15,000 clinicians, researchers, and students attended the convention, including speech-langauge pathologists, audiologists, and people from other disciplines. The convention information is available at http://www.asha.org/events/convention/