Dear all, since there is not that much information about bilingualism and childhood aphasia in the german literature, I hope you can give me some more information. This is for a 19 year old girl who suffered a stroke at the age of eleven and who has to learn English.
kind regards,
Sandro Kötter
Hello Sandro Kotter,
The following links can hopefully provide you with the targeted literature you are looking for.
Best of luck,
R. Biria
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/psicl.2007.43.issue-1/.../v10010-007-0006-3.xml
https://cbdmh.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Paradis_2008.pdf
https://www2.cegep-ste-foy.qc.ca/freesite/fileadmin/users/184/guides/guide.../aphasia.PDF
Hi Sandro,
do you know where the brain lesion is, what kind of aphasia this young woman has (or what the symptoms are), and how severely her first language (mother tongue, probably German) is affected? If she had a stroke at age 11 (quite rare), I'd assume she's undergone comprehensive assessment and has been subjected to speech-language therapy. Typically, some branch of the middle cerebral artery is involved during a stroke resulting in aphasia, but the brain areas affected can vary (it's not simply about Broca's and Wernicke's areas). Depending on what kind of deficits she presents with, speech-language pathologists (~Logopäden in Germany, I guess) may recommend distinct approaches for learning a second language. However, if the disorder is not too severe, why not start with Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/ ), which is available online for free and can be lots of fun.
Cheers,
Karsten
Hi there,
thanks a lot for all these recommendations. Perhaps i should have said that I was her speech-language pathologist for about four weeks six months ago. I asked the question by order of her current speech-language pathologist.
@Reza. I was chuffed about so many papers. Unfortunately, none of these links are accessible.
@Dibakar and Hani. Thanks for this Website and the Headway Courses. Probably education.com is rather for younger children than for a nineteen year old aphasic patient. But I am sure to select the right exercises.
@Karsten. Unfortunately, I cannot give you more Information about her lesion. As I can remember it was a mild aphasia with problems in working memory, difficulties in finding words and an articulation disorder of the postalveolar fricative (called Schetismus) which had already been treated before stroke. Duolingo seems quite helpful and i will recommend it.
thanks again,
Sandro
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