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Dr. Lisa Goffman is a new professor in the School of Behavior and Brain Sciences. Her
goal is to help children that have speech and language difficulty, however her main focus
is the children that have poor academic and social skills due to their language disorder.
Goffman has spent more than two decades studying language components in children and
yet discovered a way to help the challenged kids. She said she is also interested in motor
activities, like gesturing, writing, speaking, and studying how crucial these complicated
movements are to young learners. Goffman is now able to do research with some of the
best researchers of childhood speech and language impairments and speech motor
control. In Goffmans research she was able to find a relation between language and
motor deficits. This allows Goffman to go further in her study and apply what she has
discovered to how children learn sounds, words and sentences. Goffman ends with
saying, By focusing on the core causes of language disorders, earlier identification and
more effective treatment may be possible.
Book:
Title:
Communication
Disorders
in
Multicultural
Populations
by
Dolores
E.
Battle
Elsevier
Health
Sciences,
May
14,
2012
In
Chapter
One
there
is
a
section
that
focuses
on
multiculturalism
to
help
explain
where
it
originated
from
and
its
role
in
communication.
It
emerged
in
the
1960s
when
referring
to
cultures
by
race
and
ethnicity.
Since
culture
can
be
a
broad
term,
multicultural
was
not
restricted
to
just
race
and
ethnicity.
Multicultural
was
used
to
describe
a
society
that
came
from
diverse
racial
and
ethnic
backgrounds,
but
make
up
one
rich
group.
Members
are
valued
and
each
individual
is
respected
for
their
contribution
to
the
group.
Multicultural
society
includes
all
individuals
who
come
from
different
culture
groups
or
subgroups.
Subcultures
are
also
important
because
they
relate
to
a
large
group
of
people.
For
instance
a
Chinese-American
is
apart
of
a
subgroup
because
they
belong
to
a
large
culture
but
participate
in
the
culture
of
their
choosing.
Each
individual
has
a
unique
culture,
which
makes
them
apart
of
a
group
for
which
they
share
common
beliefs
and
activities.