Language and Communication Disorders in Children (5th Edition)

This book focuses on the area of language to explain different kinds of developmental disabilities in children. Language as a component area is most often the characteristic which professionals use to identify a child with a developmental disability. This book proposes that children with developmental disabilities share a common problem-a language/communication deficit-whatever their educational label. This fifth edition is a substantially revised introduction to the dynamic areas of speech-language pathology and special education. It focuses on the ways children learn language and the ways to help children who struggle with it. The authors present the material with the knowledge that the study of children's language and communication disorders will challenge readers to apply theories of child development, speech and hearing science, and language development and disorders for the rewarding experience of providing language intervention to communicatively disordered children. For speech-language pathologists, special educators, and students of these fields.