Handbook of communication disorders / edited by Amalia Bar-On and Dorit Ravid.

Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed May 22, 2018).

Intro; 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 lexicon5 .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 packagingII 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 classroomsII 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 writingIII 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?

The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics provide a state-of-the-art description of established and emerging areas of Applied Linguistics. Each volume gives an overview of the field, explains the most important traditions and their findings, identifies the gaps in current research, and gives perspectives for future directions.

In English.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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