Language Disorders in Children and Adults: Psycholinguistic Approaches to Therapy

by Shula Chiat (City University, London); James Law (City University, London); Jane Marshall (City University, London)

• ISBN13: 9780470698570
• ISBN10: 0470698578
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Each chapter is written by a speech and language therapist specialising in psycholinguistic approaches to investigation and intervention. Authors were invited to present a single case in one of four given areas ??? speech processing, lexical processing, sentence processing and pragmatics. The editors have provided introductions to each subject area and a discussion of the findings at the end of each section.

Table of Contents

Christopher Lumopship - Developing Phonological Representation in a child With an Auditory Processing Deficit. Maggie Vance, Remediating Auditory processing Deficits in Adults With Aphasia. Julie Morris, When is a Rolling pin a 'roll The Pen' - a Clinical Insight Into Lexical Problems. Sadie Lewis, Jane Speake, A Treatment of Anomia Combining Semantics, Phonology and Orthography. Wendy Best et al, Colourful Semantics - Thematic Role Therapy. Alison Bryan, mapping Therapy With a Fluent Dysphasic?. Susan Pethers, A Case Study of a Child with Pragmatic Difficulties - Assessment and Intervention. Amanda Hampshire, Kay Mogford-bevan, The Treatment of Communication Deficits Following right-hemisphere Lesion. Rosemary Varley, Making new Connections - are Patterns emerging?. Maria Black, Psycholinguistic Applications to Language Therapy.