Language Disorders From a Developmental Perspective

• Preface. R.S. Chapman, Children's Language Learning: An Interactionist Pespective. R.D. Kent, H.K. Vorperian, In the Mouths of Babes: Anatomic, Motor, and Sensory Foundations of Speech Development in Children. S.E. Weismer, Typical Talkers, Late Talkers, and Children With Specific Language Impairment: A Language Endowment Spectrum? T. Klee, W.J. Gavin, S.F. Stokes, Utterance Length and Lexical Diversity in American- and British-English Speaking Children: What Is the Evidence for a Clinical Marker of SLI? E. Crais, Gesture Development From an Interactionist Perspective. R. Paul, K. Chawarska, A. Klin, F. Volkmar, Dissociations in the Development of Early Communication in Austism Spectrum Disorders. L. Abbeduto, A. McDuffie, Language Learning and Use as Embedded Social Activities: Evidence From Autism and Fragile X Syndrome. M.C. Johnson-Glenberg, Fragile X Syndrome: Memory Skills and the Emergence of Reading in Males. E. Kay-Raining Bird, The Case for Bilingualism in Children With Down Syndrome. H.L. Johnson, The Development of Communicative Competence in Vulnerable Populations. C. Dollaghan, Can Verbs Be Hubs? J. Miller, Documenting Progress in Language Production: The Evolution of a Computerized Language Analysis System. D.M. Bordreau, Narrative Abilities in Children With Language Impairments. S.N. Calculator, Developmental Considerations in Addressing the AAC Needs of Children With Severe Disabilities. L.M. Milosky, E. Skarakis-Doyle, What Else About Comprehension? Examining Young Children's Discourse Comprehension Abilities. R.S. Chapman, The Developmental, Interactionist Perspective: An Afterword.

"This volume suggests that the series will break new ground in a developing specialty that will enhance the communication abilities of language-impaired children and add to the richness of their lives and those of their families. Language Disorders From a Developmental Perspective is an essential book for people in the field. It is certain to become a classic, bringing the latest material on research and development of language in both typically developing and language-impaired children to researchers, scholars, and speech therapists, as well as to confused families and caretakers... Language Disorders From a Developmental Perspective is an important book that should be required reading for everyone who teaches the development of language, conducts therapy, or does research with language-disabled children...The book is highly recommended for clinicians, researchers, and everyone involved with children's language and its disorders." - Alma H. Bond, PsycCRITIQUES