Language Development in Exceptional Circumstances

ISBN 10: 0443038007 ISBN 13: 9780443038006

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 1988

Synopsis

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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Review

""Language Development in Exceptional Circumstances is an excellent review of 13 different 'experiments of nature' each exploring a particular deviation from the typical language-learning circumstances, and its effects on the development of language. [It] succeeds in presenting a great deal of potentially disparate information in a coherent and usable fashion, and should be of value to both practitioners and theoreticians in the field of language development." -- Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago, Language and Speech."

Edition details

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443038007
• ISBN 13: 9780443038006
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Bishop Dorothy, Mogford Kay