Specific Speech and Language Disorders in Children

by Fletcher, Paul; Hall, David

• ISBN13: 9781870332422
• ISBN10: 1870332423
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-08-30
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

Presents papers from the Second International Symposium organized by AFASIC - The Association For All Speech Impaired Children - an association of parents and professionals seeking to advance knowledge and management of children and young people with speech and language impairments.

Table of Contents

Opening address (English version)

Opening address (Czech version)

Preface

Contributors

Factors Relavant to Language Impairment

Biological basis of developmental language disorders

Qualitative differences in the conversational interactions of SLI children and their younger siblings

The relationship between deprivation, physical growth and the impaired development of language

Genetics and language disorder

Language delay and social development

Brain, Cognition and Language Impairment

Brain injury and language impairment in childhood

Brain imaging and language

Cognitive abilities of language-impaired children

Language Impairment: Cross-cultural Perspectives

Specific language impairment in three languages: some cross-linguistic evidence

Child language impairment in the Hong Kong context

Child language impairment in Swedish children: a multidisciplinary approach

Subgroups in school-age language-impaired children

Outcomes, Intervention and the Curriculum

A longitudinal study of language-impaired children from a residential school

Reading and writing skills in the National Curriculum

Promoting reading and spelling skills through speech therapy

Collaboration between speech and language therapists and teachers

Principled decision making in the remediation of children with phonological disability

Early screening and intervention

Index

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