Language Disorders Arena

Communication Sciences and Disorders

An Introduction to the Professions

• By Dale F. Williams.

Published September 2011

Few activities can match the complexity of human communication. Given its intricacy, it is understandable that the process will not always work properly. When it doesn't, the effects can be devastating, given how much of everyday life depends on communicating with one another. Despite its…
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Explaining Individual Differences in Reading

Theory and Evidence

• Edited by Susan A. Brady, David Braze and Carol A. Fowler.

Published April 2011

Research into reading development and reading disabilities has been dominated by phonologically guided theories for several decades. In this volume, the authors of 11 chapters report on a wide array of current research topics, examining the scope, limits and implications of a phonological theory.…
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Therapeutic Processes for Communication Disorders

A Guide for Clinicians and Students

• Edited by Robert J. Fourie.

Published November 2010

Why do many people with disorders of communication experience a sense of demoralization? Do these subjective experiences have any bearing on how such problems should be treated? How can professionals dealing with speech, language, hearing and other communication disorders analyse and respond to the…
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Infant Pathways to Language

Methods, Models, and Research Directions

• Edited by John Colombo, Peggy McCardle and Lisa Freund.

Published October 2008

The recent progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood, have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function. The contributors to…
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Handbook of Child Language Disorders

• Edited by Richard G. Schwartz.

Published September 2008

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 childhood…
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Understanding Developmental Language Disorders

From Theory to Practice

• Edited by Courtenay Frazier Norbury, J. Bruce Tomblin and Dorothy V.M. Bishop.

Published June 2008

Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason. Delayed development of speech and/or language is one of the most common reasons for parents of preschool children to seek the advice of their family doctor. Although…
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Reading Acquisition and Developmental Dyslexia

• By Liliane Sprenger-Charolles, Pascale Colé and Willy Serniclaes.

Published October 2006

Most studies on reading have been conducted with English-speaking subjects. It is crucial to also examine studies conducted in different languages, in order to highlight which aspects of reading acquisition and dyslexia appear to be language-specific, and which are universal. Reading Acquisition…
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Language Disorders From a Developmental Perspective

Essays in Honor of Robin S. Chapman

• Edited by Rhea Paul.

Published September 2006

The last 25 years have witnessed an explosion of research at the intersection of typical language development and child language disorders. A pioneer in bringing these fields of study together is Robin S. Chapman, Emerita, University of Wisconsin. This contributed volume honors her with chapters…
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Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics

Four Cornerstones

• Edited by Anne Cutler.

Published June 2005

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence.…
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Beyond Nature-Nurture

Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates

• Edited by Michael Tomasello, and Dan Isaac Slobin.

Published August 2004

Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer. Liz was a force of nature;…
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