The Efficacy of Monolingual and Bilingual Treatment on Bilinguals with Aphasia

The United States population is becoming more and more bilingual. In 2013, the Census Bureau reported that about twenty percent of the population over the age of five spoke a language other than English at home. Recently ASHA reported that only six percent of its members speak a second language well enough to practice bilingually (2016). With such a vast discrepancy between population and service providers, the need for effective bilingual treatment strategies is vast. This paper focuses on the treatments available to the bilingual population with aphasia