Language Disorders From a Developmental Perspective: Essays in Honor of Robin S. Chapman

by Paul; Rhea

• ISBN13: 9780805850376
• ISBN10: 0805850376
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-29
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

The last 25 years have witnessed an explosion of research at the intersection of typical language development and child language disorders. A pioneer in bringing these fields of study together is Robin S. Chapman, Emerita, University of Wisconsin. This contributed volume honors her with chapters written by former students and colleagues, who track in their own research the theme of psycholinguistic contributions to our understanding of the nature and remediation of child language disorders. In this volume, such renowned researchers in child language development as Dorothy Bishop, Judith Johnston, Ray Kent, among others, discuss their research in certain populations in the context of the significance of, limits of, and alternatives to Robin Chapman's developmental interactionist perspective. Studies of disordered language in Down's Syndrome and Specific Language Impairment, in particular, attribute much progress in our understanding of the pragmatic and comprehension skills in these populations to the developmental perspective. Language Disorders From a Developmental Perspectiveopens with a reprint of Robin Chapman's seminal 2001 article fromThe Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology. It concludes with a new chapter from Dr. Chapman summarizing what we know and what we don't know about language disorders within the developmental framework, and pointing to future areas of research and intervention. Clinicians as well as scholars will benefit from this book, as will students in programs of developmental psycholinguistics, child language disorders, and learning disabilities.

Author Biography

Rhea Paul, CCC-SLP, is a full professor in the Department of Communications Disorders at Southern Connecticut State University with a joint appointment at the Yale University Child Study Center. Well published, she has won many teaching awards and is the recipient of several large grants for her work in autism.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Children's Language Learning: An Interactionist Perspective	p. 1
In the Mouths of Babes: Anatomic, Motor, and Sensory Foundations of Speech Development in Children	p. 55
Typical Talkers, Late Talkers, and Children With Specific Language Impairment: A Language Endowment Spectrum?	p. 83
Utterance Length and Lexical Diversity in American- and British-English Speaking Children: What Is the Evidence for a Clinical Marker of SLI?	p. 103
Gesture Development From an Interactionist Perspective	p. 141
Dissociations in the Development of Early Communication in Autism Spectrum Disorders	p. 163
Language Learning and Use as Embedded Social Activities: Evidence From Autism and Fragile X Syndrome	p. 195
Fragile X Syndrome: Memory Skills and the Emergence of Reading in Males	p. 215
The Case for Bilingualism in Children with Down Syndrome	p. 249
The Development of Communicative Competence in Vulnerable Populations	p. 277
Could Verbs Be Hubs?	p. 297
Documenting Progress in Language Production: The Evolution of a Computerized Language Analysis System	p. 315
Narrative Abilities in Children With Language Impairments	p. 331
Developmental Considerations in Addressing the AAC Needs of Children With Severe Disabilities	p. 357
What Else About Comprehension? Examining Young Children's Discourse Comprehension Abilities	p. 377
The Developmental, Interactionist Perspective: An Afterword	p. 405
Author Index	p. 419
Subject Index	p. 439
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