This brings together the extensive but widely scattered research undertaken in this field in recent years. Written by specialists, it covers a range of exceptional circumstances including: extreme deprivation; twinship; visual and auditory impairments, autism and focal brain damage. The implications of the research for language development in unexceptional circumstances are also discussed. Other key features include: an introductory chapter on language development in normal children, a concluding chapter on implications for specific language impairments, and a glossary of specialist linguistic and medical terminology. The book assumes little specialist knowledge and should be of interest to speech therapists; speech pathologists; paediatricians; clinical and educational psychologists; and special education workers.
This brings together the extensive but widely scattered research undertaken in this field in recent years. Written by specialists, it covers a range of exceptional circumstances including: extreme deprivation; twinship; visual and auditory impairments, autism and focal brain damage. The implications of the research for language development in unexceptional circumstances are also discussed. Other key features include: an introductory chapter on language development in normal children, a concluding chapter on implications for specific language impairments, and a glossary of specialist linguistic and medical terminology. The book assumes little specialist knowledge and should be of interest to speech therapists; speech pathologists; paediatricians; clinical and educational psychologists; and special education workers.
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25 illustrations, glossary, references, index
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Höhe: 250 mm
Breite: 190 mm
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978-0-443-03800-6 (9780443038006)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Language development in unexceptional circumstances; extreme deprivation in early childhood; hearing children of deaf parents; bilingual language development in preschool children; language development in twins; intermittent conductive hearing loss and language development; oral language acquisition in the prelinguistically deaf; the acquisition of syntax and space in young deaf signers; visual handicap; Down's syndrome; dissociation between language and cognitive functions in Williams' syndrome; infantile autism; language development after focal brain damage; language development in children with abnormal structure or function of the speech apparatus; five questions about language acquisition considered in the light of exceptional circumstances. Appendix: a non-evaluative summary of language assessment procedures.
