TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leonard,Laurence B.
TI  - Children with specific language impairment
SN  - 0262122065 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - RJ496.L35 L46 1998
U1  - 618.928 55 LEO 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Specific language impairment in children
N1  - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-323) and index; Part 1 Foundations: introduction; characterizing the language deficit - basic concepts. Part 2 Describing the data - linguistic and nonlinguistic findings: the language characteristics of SLI - a detailed look at English; SLI across languages; evidence from nonlinguistic cognitive tasks; auditory processing and speech perception. Part 3 Nature and nurture: the genetics and neurobiology of SLI; the linguistic and communicative environment. Part 4 Clinical issues: problems of differential diagnosis; the nature and efficiency of treatment. Part 5 SLI as a deficit in linguistic knowledge; SLI as a limitation in general processing capacity; SLI as a processing deficit in specific mechanisms. Part 6 Conclusions: why study SLI revisited
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy051/96037594.html
ER  -