Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Amalia Bar-On (editor); Dorit Ravid (editor); Elitzur Dattner (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 970
• Series: Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL]; 15
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The domain of Communication Disorders has grown exponentially in the last two decades and has come to encompass much more than audiology, speech impediments and early language impairment. The realization that most developmental and learning disorders are language-based or language-related has brought insights from theoretical and empirical linguistics and its clinical applications to the forefront of Communication Disorders science. The current handbook takes an integrated psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspective on Communication Disorders by targeting the interface between language and cognition as the context for understanding disrupted abilities and behaviors and providing solutions for treatment and therapy. Researchers and practitioners will be able to find in this handbook state-of-the-art information on typical and atypical development of language and communication (dis)abilities across the human lifespan from infancy to the aging brain, covering all major clinical disorders and conditions in various social and communicative contexts, such as spoken and written language and discourse, literacy issues, bilingualism, and socio-economic status.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to the Handbooks of Applied Linguistics Series
Table of contents
Introduction to the Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives
I Linguistic acquisition Section 1: Phonology and speech
1. The role of hearing in speech and language acquisition and processing
2. Speech perception and auditory development in infants with and without hearing loss
3 Developing phonology
I Linguistic acquisition Section 2: Lexical knowledge
4 Early lexicon and the development that precedes and follows it – A developmental view to early lexicon
5 .Typical and atypical lexical development
6. Figurative language acquisition and development
7. Figurative language development: Implications for assessment and clinical practice
8 .Spoken word production: Processes and potential breakdown
I Linguistic acquisition Section 3: Grammatical constructions
9. Morphological development
10. Acquisition of an agglutinative language under adverse neonatal conditions
11. Later morpho-lexical acquisition
12. Development of complex syntax: From early clause-combining to text-embedded syntactic packaging
II Oral and written communication Section 4: Communication and discourse
13. Theory of mind and communication: Developmental perspectives
14. Socio-pragmatic skills underlying language development: Boundaries between typical and atypical development
15. Learning conversational skills and learning from conversation
16. Narrative Discourse: Developmental Perspectives
17. Narrative interventions for children with language disorders: A review of practices and findings
18. Helping language learning in inclusive classrooms
II Oral and written communication Section 5: Linguistic literacy
19. What is literacy? And what is a literate disability?
20. Promoting early literacy of children from low socioeconomic backgrounds in preschool and at home
21. Foundations for a universal model of learning to read
22. Acquisition of spelling: Normal and impaired/disordered populations
23 .The role of morphology in reading and writing
24. Reading comprehension: Individual differences, disorders, and underlying cognitive processes
25. Grammar for writing and grammar in writing
III Environmental effects Section 6: Socio-economic status
26. How socioeconomic differences in early language environments shape children’s language development
27. Cognition and language in different socioeconomic and environmental settings
28. Language disorder versus language difference: The impact of socio-economic status
III Environmental effects Section 7: Multilingualism
29. Input, context and early child bilingualism: Implications for clinical practice
30. SLI in bilingual development: How do we approach assessment?
31. Development of vocabulary knowledge and its relationship with reading comprehension among emergent bilingual children: An overview
32. Factors affecting second language acquisition: Successes and nonsuccesses
IV. Language and communication disorders Section 8: Developmental and neurological disorders
33 .The changing profile of Specific Language Impairment
34. Neuroplasticity and development: Discourse in children with perinatal stroke and children with language impairment
35 .Types of developmental dyslexia
36. Implicit learning in developmental dyslexia as demonstrated by the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) and the Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL) tasks
37. Speech and language in congenitally deaf children with a cochlear implant
38. Parental involvement in early intervention for children with hearing loss
39. Communication, language, and speech in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
40. Language in people with Williams syndrome
41. Making language accessible for people with cognitive disabilities: Intellectual disability as a test case
IV Language and communication disorders Section 9: Disorders in aging
42. Brain and language in healthy aging
43. Language impairments in acquired aphasia: Features and frameworks
44 .Language in neurodegenerative diseases
Index