Abstract:
The number of bilingual patients on monolingual and bilingual speech-language pathologists' (SLPs) caseloads is increasing. The literature often features semantic-based and phonological-based approaches for the treatment of naming deficits. However, many clinicians are unsure of how to use these practices with bilingual patients with aphasia, and they question whether treatment should be given in the patient’s weaker or stronger language in order to facilitate cross-linguistic generalization to the untreated language. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to foster SLPs’ confidence in treating bilingual individuals with aphasia by presenting a clinical scenario, summarizing effective naming treatment for bilingual aphasia, and exploring how the language of treatment may promote cross-linguistic generalization to the untreated language.
