Specific speech and language disorders in children : correlates, characteristics, and outcomes / Specific speech & language disorders in children [edited by] Paul Fletcher, David Hall, with the assistance of Elizabeth Angur ... [et al.]. - San Diego, Calif. : Singular Pub. Group, c1992 - xi, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Based on a conference held a Harrogate, England, 26-31 May 1991"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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, Intervention 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.

1870332423

92019316


Language disorders in children--Congresses.
Speech disorders in children--Congresses.
Language Disorders--in infancy & childhood--congresses.
Speech Disorders--in infancy & childhood--congresses.

RJ496.L35 / S65 1992

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