Specific Speech and Language Disorders in Children

Presents papers from the Second International Symposium organized by AFASIC – The Association For All Speech Impaired Children – an association of parents and professionals seeking to advance knowledge and management of children and young people with speech and language impairments.

Spis treści:
Opening address (English version).
Opening address (Czech version).
Preface.
Contributors.
Part I Factors Relavant to Language Impairment.
Chapter 1 Biological basis of developmental language disorders – Dorothy V.M. Bishop.
Chapter 2 Qualitative differences in the conversational interactions of SLI children and their younger siblings – Grame D. Hutcheson and Gina Conti–Ramsden.
Chapter 3 The relationship between deprivation, physical growth and the impaired development of language – David Skuse.
Chapter 4 Genetics and language disorder – Marcus Pembrey.
Chapter 5 Language delay and social development – Michael Rutter, Lynn Mahwood and Patricia Howlin.
Part II Brain, Cognition and Language Impairment.
Chapter 6 Brain injury and language impairment in childhood – Dorothy M. Aram.
Chapter 7 Brain imaging and language – Richard Robinson.
Chapter 8 Cognitive abilities of language–impaired children – Judith R. Johnston.
Part III Language Impairment: Cross–cultural Perspectives.
Chapter 9 Specific language impairment in three languages: some cross–linguistic evidence – Laurence B. Leonard.
Chapter 10 Child language impairment in the Hong Kong context – Ann Zubrick.
Chapter 11 Child language impairment in Swedish children: a multidisciplinary approach – Ulrika Nettelbladt.
Chapter 12 Subgroups in school–age language–impaired children – Paul Fletcher.
Part IV Outcomes, Interventio n and the Curriculum.
Chapter 13 A longitudinal study of language–impaired children from a residential school – Corinne Haynes.
Chapter 14 Reading and writing skills in the National Curriculum – Katharine Perera.
Chapter 15 Promoting reading and spelling skills through speech therapy – Joy Stackhouse.
Chapter 16 Collaboration between speech and language therapists and teachers – Jannet A. Wright.
Chapter 17 Principled decision making in the remediation of children with phonological disability – Pamela Grunwell.
Chapter 18 Early screening and intervention – David M.B. Hall.
Index.

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Presents papers from the Second International Symposium organized by AFASIC – The Association For All Speech Impaired Children – an association of parents and professionals seeking to advance knowledge and management of children and young people with speech and language impairments.