Childhood Language Disorders

This volume on language handicaps in children covers current therapy and diagnosis, as well as assessment. The first section deals with "perspectives", for example, the social, genetic, cognitive, linguistic and academic perspectives. The second section deals with practices and client population. It gives a unique perspective: integrated study and cultural rootings of communicative behaviour. Their interactions are carefully analyzed. Clinical researchers have applied normal developmental models in attempts to analyze what sounds like abnormal behavirour. However, abnormal developments need to be studied on their own terms, as free-standing behaviours with an integrity of their own.