Assessing Grammar: The Languages of LARSP (Communication Disorders Across Languages): 7 - Softcover

Martin Ball

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847696376 ISBN 13: 9781847696373

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2012

Synopsis

This collection is a resource book for those working with language disordered clients in a range of languages. It collects together versions of the well-known Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure (LARSP) prepared for different languages. Starting with the original version for English, the book then presents versions in more than a dozen other languages. Some of these are likely to be encountered as home languages of clients by speech-language therapists and pathologists working in the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia and New Zealand. Others are included because they are major languages found where speech-language pathology services are provided, but where no grammatical profile already exists.

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About the Author

Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics (Taylor & Francis), and the book series Communication Disorders Across Languages (Multilingual Matters). His main research interests include sociolinguistics, clinical phonetics and phonology, and the linguistics of Welsh. David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, Wales, UK. Since 1984, he has worked from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster on linguistics, applied linguistics, and English language studies. His books include The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, The Stories of English, and Internet Linguistics. Paul Fletcher is Emeritus Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork. Since the 1970s he has published widely on language development and language impairment in children speaking English, and more recently on those speaking Cantonese and Mandarin. His research focus, initially primarily on syntax, has broadened to include vocabulary, and the interaction between vocabulary and syntax in language development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847696376
• ISBN 13: 9781847696373
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Martin Ball, David Crystal, Paul Fletcher