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Handbook of Child Language Disorders

• Edited by Richard G. Schwartz

• Price: $95.00 $85.50
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 608
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 15th September 2008 (Available for Pre-order)
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-433-7

About the Book

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and remediation of language disorders in children. The book includes chapters focusing on specific groups of children (SLI, autism, genetic syndromes, dyslexia, hearing impairment); the linguistic, perceptual, genetic, neurobiological, and cognitive bases of these disorders; and the context of language disorders (bilingual, across dialects, and across languages). To examine the nature of deficits, their assessment and remediation across populations, chapters address the main components of language (morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and related areas (processing, memory, attention, executive function such as reading and writing). Finally, even though there is extensive information regarding research and clinical methods in each chapter, there are individual chapters that focus directly on research methods.

This handbook is a comprehensive reference source for clinicians and researchers and can be used as a textbook for undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students in speech-language pathology, developmental psychology, special education, disabilities studies, neuropsychology and in other fields interested in children's language disorders.

Reviews

"The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an exceptionally broad and comprehensive review of the state of research in children’s communication problems. It provides an accessible review of the major research approaches currently used to understand language development and its disorders in a wide range of syndromes and conditions. Authors from backgrounds including linguistics, cognitive and neuropsychology, genetics, and neuroscience contribute unique perspectives. This volume provides students, scholars, and practitioners with a readable compendium of information that will serve as an indispensable resource in understanding and managing children’s language disorders." -- Rhea Paul, Yale Child Study Center

"This creatively conceived volume not only provides a cutting-edge exploration of our current understanding of language disorders in children, it also points to likely future developments through its description of emerging methods and theories. The impressive group of contributors cogently represent the wide range of disciplines with interests in this population. Their writing is provocative, yet accessible to readers at many levels of expertise and form many disciplines. In short, this is a book that I will buy for my own library, then thrust upon colleagues, students, and anyone else who studies or treats children with language disorders. It seems destined to become a classic." -- Rebecca McCauley, Professor, The University of Vermont

"The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides a 'must have' resource for both researchers and clinicians on a crucial range of contemporary issues underlying research and clinical practice in the field of communication sciences and disorders. The authors in this volume are producing the seminal work that drives our field forward in their respective sub-areas of child language research. As such, each chapter in this compendium represents cutting edge understanding of the diverse components within the broad area of child language disorders. Richard Schwartz has produced a stellar reference work that will provide an asset of continuing service to our field." -- Barbara L. Davis, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Table of Contents

Part I: Typology of Child Language Disorders. Richard G. Schwartz, Specific Language Impairment. Andrea McDuffie & Leonard Abbeduto, Language Disorders in Children with Mental Retardation of Genetic Origin: Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, and Williams Syndrome. Joanne Gerenser, Language Disorders in Children with Autism. Miranda Cleary, Language Disorders in Children with Hearing Impairment. Sally E. Shaywitz, Jeffrey R. Gruen, Maria Mody, & Bennett A. Shaywitz, Dyslexia. Part II: Bases of Child Language Disorders. Irena Botwinik-Rotem & Naama Friedmann, Linguistic Bases of Child Language Disorders. Baila Tropper & Richard G. Schwartz, Neurobiology of Child Language Disorders. Ronald B. Gillam, James W. Montgomery, & Sandra L. Gillam, Attention and Memory in Child Language Disorders. Jan Edwards & Benjamin Munson, Speech Perception and Production in Child Language Disorders. J. Bruce Tomblin, Genetics of Child Language Disorders. Marc F. Joanisse, Model-based Approaches to Child Language Disorders. Part III: Language Contexts of Child Language Disorders. Elizabeth D. Peña & Lisa M. Bedore, Bilingualism in Child Language Disorders. Laurence B. Leonard, Cross-Linguistic Studies of Child Language Disorders. Julie A. Washington, Language Variation in Child Language Disorders. Part IV: Deficits, Assessment, and Intervention in Child Language Disorders. Janna B. Oetting & Pamela A. Hadley, Morphosyntax in Child Language Disorders. Karla K. McGregor, Semantics in Child Language Disorders. Paul Fletcher, Syntax in Child Language Disorders. Martin Fujiki & Bonnie Brinton, Pragmatics and Social Communication in Child Language Disorders. Pamela E. Hook & Charles W. Haynes, Reading and Writing in Child Language Disorders. Jennifer Windsor & Kathryn Kohnert, Processing Speed, Attention, and Perception in Child Language Disorders. Part V: Research Methods in Child Language Disorders. Liat Seiger-Gardner, Language Production Approaches to Child Language Disorders. Patricia Deevy, Language Comprehension Approaches to Child Language Disorders. Marc E. Fey & Lizbeth H. Finestack, Research and Development in Child Language Intervention: A Five-Phase Model. Valerie L. Shafer & Nathan D. Maxfield, Neuroscience Approaches to Child Language Disorders.

About the Author(s)

Richard G. Schwartz is a Presidential Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written numerous articles and book chapters concerning speech and language disorders in children. Dr. Schwartz has received numerous research grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health and has served as an editor of the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Science.