Handbook of Early Language Impairment in Children

by Watson, Linda R.; Crais, Elizabeth R.; Layton, Thomas L.

• ISBN13: 9780827375246
• ISBN10: 0827375247
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This essential resource covers the assessment and treatment of children with specific language impairments. While focusing on ecologically valid assessment strategies, this book also stresses the importance of inclusion of the family in assessment and intervention processes, as well as the need for culturally valid procedures.

Author Biography

Elizabeth R. Crais, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
List of Tables	ix
Preface	xi
List of contributors	xv
Ecologically Valid Communication Assessment of Infants and Toddlers	1	(38)
Elizabeth R. Crais
Evaluation versus Assessment	3	(1)
Ecologically Valid Assessment	4	(4)
Parameters of Assessment	8	(31)
Ecologically Valid Assessment of Two- to Five-Year Olds	39	(34)
Sandra N. Kleinman
Barry M. Prizant
Purposes and Goals of Assessment	41	(3)
Factors That Have Motivated Ecologically Valid Assessments	44	(7)
Assessment Approaches: Developing a Portrait of the Child	51	(3)
Designing Child-Specific, Dynamic Assessments	54	(3)
Domains of Assessment: Developing a Portrait of the Child	57	(6)
Applying Information from the Assessment Procedures to Create Intervention Programs	63	(10)
Sociocultural Issues in Assessment and Intervention	73	(38)
Elise Davis-McFarland
Bonita Dowell
Language and Culture	74	(3)
Language Assessment with Preschoolers	77	(1)
Standardized Assessments: Issues and Challenges	78	(16)
Language Intervention with Preschoolers	94	(17)
A Model for Linking Assessment and Intervention for Children with Developmental Disorders	111	(26)
Diane Bricker
Angela Losardo
Historical Perspective on Early Communicative Assessment and Intervention	112	(2)
Concerns with Traditional Approaches to Early Communicative Asessment and Intervention	114	(2)
An Alternative Model: Necessary Components	116	(1)
Curriculum-based Assessment: The Necessary Tool	116	(3)
An Overview of the Model	119	(18)
Collaboration with Families in Communication Intervention	137	(36)
Yvonne Gillette
The Professional as a Consultant	138	(1)
An Ecological Model of Communication Intervention	139	(1)
ECO Assessments	140	(1)
Determining the Need for a Communication Intervention Plan	141	(1)
Gathering Information for a Communication Intervention Plan	142	(9)
Dynamic Assessment and Monitoring	151	(1)
ECO Intervention Planning	152	(3)
Consulting with Partners to Implement an ECO Communication Intervention Plan	155	(4)
Applying the ECO Model	159	(14)
Language Intervention for Young Children with Language Impairments	173	(26)
Susan Ellis Weismer
Clinician-based Language Intervention Approaches	174	(6)
The Impact of Peer Models on Language Development	180	(1)
Parent-based Language Intervention Approaches	181	(3)
Consideration of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Language Intervention	184	(3)
The Role of Early Language Intervention	187	(4)
Appendix 6: Children's Verbal Scripts for Playing House	191	(8)
Issues in Emergent Literacy for Children with Language Impairments	199	(46)
Joan Kaderavek
Elizabeth Sulzby
Theoretical Orientation	201	(1)
Emergent Literacy Research	202	(3)
Children's Emergent Storybook Productions: Research, Elicitation Procedures, and Classification Schemes	205	(11)
Emergent Literacy Issues with Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): Current Research and Clinical Applications	216	(29)
Language Intervention for Prelinguistic and Nonverbal Children	245	(34)
Mary Blake Huer
Needs for Language Intervention with Prelinguistic and Nonverbal Children	246	(2)
Needs for Communication	248	(2)
Nonsymbolic versus Symbolic Communication	250	(1)
Development of Initial Vocabulary: Symbolic Communication	251	(1)
Conveying Messages through Augmentative Communication Systems	252	(2)
AAC System Selection Considerations	254	(7)
Intervention for the Young Child Who Uses Augmentative and Alternative Communication	261	(12)
Appendix 8: Publishers and Manufacturers of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Equipment and Materials for the Preschool Child Using AAC	273	(6)
Sensory Integration Therapy for Children with Language Impairments	279	(28)
Tracy Murnan Stackhouse
Sarah K Scharfenaker
Sensory Integration	280	(10)
SI Dysfunction Related to Communication	290	(11)
Interdisciplinary Collaboration	301	(6)
Glossary	307	(4)
Index	311