Wallach, Geraldine P.

Language intervention for school-age students : setting goals for academic success / Geraldine P. Wallach. - St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby Elsevier, c2008. - xvi, 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-366) and index.

PART ONE: Conceptual Framework

1. Innovative Language Intervention at School-Age Levels: What It Takes to Get There

2. Language Learning Disabilities: Where Are We?

PART TWO: A Practical Framework

3. What Language Intervention "Looks Like" at School-Age Levels

4. Creating "Curriculum-Relevant" Therapy: Making the Tough Choices

PART THREE: A Marriage of Conceptual and Practical Frameworks

5. Successful Language Literacy Intervention: A Look Back to Looking Ahead

6. Integrating Spoken and Written Language: An Eye Toward Becoming Literate

7. Seeing the World Through Connected Text: Bringing Structure and Content, Macro and Micro Pieces Together (Part 1)

8. Seeing the World Through Connected Text: Bringing Structure and Content, Macro and Micro Pieces Together (Part 2)

PART FOUR: Toward a Summary

9. Back into the Field: Starting to Pull the Missing Pieces Together

10. The End Becomes a New Beginning: Coming Full Circle

APPENDIX A: Examples of Scripts at Each Level Using the Book-Sharing Intervention

APPENDIX B: A Suggested Sequence of Literature-Based Intervention Activities

APPENDIX C: Interview Protocol for Eliciting Conversation, Narrative, and Expository Samples of Connected Speech

APPENDIX D: A List of Connecting Words and Definitions and Words with Similar Meanings

BIBLIOGRAPHY


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Learning disabled children--Education.
Language disorders in children.
Special education--Language arts.
Academic achievement.
Language Disorders--therapy.
Learning Disorders--therapy.
Adolescent.
Child.
Education, Special--methods.
Schools.

LC4704 / .W342 2008

371.914 WAL

2007 L-738 WL 340.2 / W195L 2008