Language Development and Language Impairment

A Problem-Based Introduction

AvPaul Fletcher,Ciara O'Toole

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Language Development and Language Impairment offers a problem-based introduction to the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of childhood language developmental disorders. Focuses for the most part on the pre-school years, the period during which the foundations for language development are laidUses a problem-based approach, designed to motivate students to find the information they need to identify and explore learning issues that a particular speech or language issue raisesExamines the development of a child’s phonological system, the growth of vocabulary, the development of grammar, and issues related to conversational and narrative competenceIntegrates information on typical and atypical language development

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-09
Mått:197 x 254 x 19 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780470656433

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Paul Fletcher is Emeritus Professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland, where he was previously Professor. He has also held professorships at the University of Hong Kong and Reading University. Ciara O'Toole is Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy at the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland. Her teaching and research interests are in the area of pediatric communication development and disorders. She has a particular interest in bilingual language acquisition.

Innehållsförteckning

Companion Website viiPreface ix1 Overview 11.1 The Effects of Preschool Language Impairment 11.2 The Ambient Language 31.3 Typical Language Development 91.4 Atypical Language Development 212 The First Year of Life 332.1 Introduction 332.2 Social Development and Language Learning 352.3 Cognitive Development and Language Development 532.4 Speech Production in Infancy 612.5 Speech Perception in Infancy 712.6 Further Problems 803 Sounds 913.1 The Learning Task 913.2 The Role of Perception 943.3 The Production of Vowels 1023.4 The Production of Consonants 1143.5 Further Problems 1274 Words 1334.1 Early Vocabulary Development 1334.2 Learning to Label: First Steps 1384.3 Building a Lexicon 1484.4 Lexical Growth and Individual Differences 1524.5 Beyond Nouns 1574.6 A Bridge to Syntax 1634.7 Further Problems 1665 Combining Words 1755.1 Introduction 1755.2 Transcribing and Analyzing Language Samples 1775.3 Verb Forms 1935.4 Interrogatives: Asking Questions 2015.5 Complex Sentences 2125.6 Further Problems 2236 Beyond the Sentence 2296.1 Introduction 2296.2 Early Pragmatic Competence 2316.3 Discourse Skills 1: Conversations 2356.4 Discourse Skills 2: Telling Stories 2506.5 Presupposition 2566.6 Pragmatic Language Difficulties: Implications for Treatment 2586.7 Further Problems 261Appendix 1: The International Phonetic Alphabet 269Appendix 2: Reliability and Validity 271Appendix 3: Sensitivity and Specificity 275Appendix 4: Techniques for Exploring Speech Perception in Infants 277Appendix 5: Grammatical Analysis Using the LARSP Profile 279Index 291