These volumes, part of the Cambridge Monographs and Texts in Applied Psycholinguistics, present contemporary, high-level reviews of research, theory, and practice in reading, writing, and language-learning and in disorders of first language development. Each review focuses wherever possible on the work of its author or authors. This series will help those involved in psychology, linguistics, education, and speech sciences keep abreast of major developments in the many sub-areas of applied psycholinguistics. Volumes 1 and 2 are bound together in cloth, but for greater accessibility are published separately in paper.
Table of contents:
Preface; 1. Is specific language impairment a useful construct? Laurence B. Leonard; 2. Teaching language form, meaning, and function to specific-language-impaired children Phil J. Connell; 3. Linguistic communication and mental retardation Leonard Abbeduto and Sheldon Rosenberg; 4. Interactions between linguistic and pragmatic development in learning-disabled children: three views of the state of the union Mavis Donahue; 5. Deafness and language development Stephen P. Quigley and Peter V. Paul; 6. Language lateralization and disordered language development Marcel Kinsbourne and Merrill Hiscock; 7. Language changes in healthy aging and dementia Jennifer Sandson, Loraine K. Obler and Martin L. Albert; Index.
Table of contents:
Preface; 1. Is specific language impairment a useful construct? Laurence B. Leonard; 2. Teaching language form, meaning, and function to specific-language-impaired children Phil J. Connell; 3. Linguistic communication and mental retardation Leonard Abbeduto and Sheldon Rosenberg; 4. Interactions between linguistic and pragmatic development in learning-disabled children: three views of the state of the union Mavis Donahue; 5. Deafness and language development Stephen P. Quigley and Peter V. Paul; 6. Language lateralization and disordered language development Marcel Kinsbourne and Merrill Hiscock; 7. Language changes in healthy aging and dementia Jennifer Sandson, Loraine K. Obler and Martin L. Albert; Index.