Seyhun TopbaşŸ is professor of Speech & Language Pathology at Anadolu University, Turkey. She is one of the pioneers of Speech and Language Pathology profession in Turkey; the founder of the graduate programs in Speech and Language Therapy and DILKOM (Education, Research and Training Centre for Speech and Language Pathology) at Anadolu University. Dr. Topbas has developed the first standardized Turkish Articulation and Phonology Test and published on phonological disorders in a variety of books and journals. She is currently on the editorial board of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.Mehmet Yavaş is professor of Linguistics at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. His main area is phonology and its application to language acquisition and to speech and language disorders. His articles on Applied Phonology have appeared in numerous journals. He is the principal author of Avaliaçao Fonologica da Criança (a phonological assessment procedure for Brazilian Portuguese). His other publications are Phonological Disorders in Children (Routledge, 1991), First and Second Language Phonology (Singular, 1994), Phonology: Development and Disorders (Singular 1998), Applied English Phonology (Blackwell, 2006).

Communication Disorders in Turkish is the most comprehensive overview of this topic ever written. Each chapter author has skillfully translated research to guide clinical practice. Speech-language pathologists and audiologists within Turkey, and in the many countries where Turkish people live, will find the breadth and depth of information to be impressive.

• PART I PrologueChapter 1: A Closer Look at the Developing Profession of Speech and Language Pathology - Seyhun TopbaşChapter 2: The Sound Inventory of Turkish: Consonants and Vowels - Handan Kopkallı-YavuzChapter 3: Some Structural Characteristics of Turkish - Mehmet YavaşPART II Communication Development and Disorders in Monolingual SettingsChapter 4: Normal Language Development in Turkish - Ayhan Aksu-KoçChapter 5: MLU as a Tool for Morphological Assessment in Turkish Children - Pınar EgeChapter 6: Turkish SALT: Computer Assisted Language Sample Analysis - Funda Acarlar and Judith JohnstonChapter 7: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish: Adapting the TELD-3 as a First Step in Measuring Language Impairments - Seyhun TopbaşChapter 8: Speech Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children - Ümran TüfekçioğluChapter 9: Language Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children - Ümran TüfekçioğluChapter 10: Characteristics of Aphasia in Turkish - İlknur MavişChapter 11: Semantic Relatedness Judgments in Normal Turkish-English Bilinguals - İlknur Maviş and Swathi KiranPART III Communication Disorders in Multilingual SettingsChapter 12: Aspects of Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children - Kutlay Yağmur and Elma Nap-KoffChapter 13: Language Impairment in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children - Jan de Jong, Nazife Çavuş and Anne BakerChapter 14: Measuring the Language Abilities of Turkish-English Bilingual Children Using TELD-3-T - Theodoros Marinis and Duygu ÖzgeChapter 15: Aspects of Language Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-French Bilingual Children - Mehmet Ali Akıncı and Nathalie Decool-MercierChapter 16: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish-German Bilingual Children: Aspects of Assessment and Outcome - Solveig Chilla and Ezel Babür