Language disorders from infancy through adolescence : listening, speaking, reading, writing, and communicating

This is a comprehensive textbook for teaching assessment of childhood language disorders and provision of appropriate treatment. This new edition features significant updates in research, trends, instruction best practices, and social skills assessment. Contents include: evaluation and assessment; principles of intervention; child language disorders in a pluralistic society; assessment and intervention in the prelinguistic period; assessment and intervention for emerging language; assessment of developing language; intervention for developing language; language, reading, and learning in school-what the speech-language pathologist needs to know; assessing student's language for learning; intervening at the language-for-learning period; assessing advanced language; intervention for advanced language.