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The Effects Of Spoken Accent On Verbal Working Memory Performance, Faithe Snyder
The Effects Of Spoken Accent On Verbal Working Memory Performance, Faithe Snyder
Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Communication Disorders Undergraduate Honors Theses
Language diversity is continually increasing in the United States. In the 2007 American Community Survey taken by the U.S. Census Bureau, it was found that about 20 percent of the U.S. population spoke a language other than English at home. As language diversity increases in the country, the language diversity of individuals diagnosed with cognitive or communicative impairments also increases. As a result, understanding how language and spoken accent difference affects the accuracy of diagnostic testing becomes an important question. A large challenge facing speech-language pathologists regarding culturally and linguistically diverse clients is distinguishing communication differences from communication disorders. As …