Language Disorders in Children and Adults Psycholinguistic Approaches to Therapy

by Chiat, Shula; Law, James; Marshall, Jane

• ISBN13: 9781861560148
• ISBN10: 1861560141
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-17
• 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.

Author Biography

Professor Shula Chiat, department of language and communication sciences, City University, London, UK.

James Law is the editor of Language Disorders in Children and Adults: Psycholinguistic Approaches to Therapy, published by Wiley.

Jane Marshall is the editor of Language Disorders in Children and Adults: Psycholinguistic Approaches to Therapy, published by Wiley.

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

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