The new edition of this popular text provides essential guidance for properly assessing childhood language disorders and providing appropriate treatment. Coverage includes the entire developmental period through adolescence, as well as additional concepts related to child language disorders such as prevention, syndromes associated with language disorders, and multicultural practice. Using a descriptive-developmental approach (also known as communication-language approach), this resource presents basic concepts and vocabulary used in the field, an overview of key issues and controversies, an understanding of the scope of communicative difficulties that make up child language disorders, and information on how language pathologists approach the assessment and intervention processes.

Table of Contents

Section 1. Topics in Child Language Disorders 1. Models of Child Language Disorders 2. Evaluation and Assessment 3. Principles of Intervention 4. Special Considerations for Special Populations 5. Child Language Disorders in a Pluralistic Society Section 2. From Birth to Brown's Stage V 6. Assessment and Intervention in the Prelinguistic Period 7. Assessment and Intervention for Emerging Language 8. Assessment of Developing Language 9. Intervention for Developing Language Section 3. Working with Language Learning Disabilities 10. Language, Reading, and Learning in School: What the SLP Needs to Know 11. Assessing Student's Language for Learning 12. Intervention at the Language-for-Learning Period 13. Assessing Advanced Language 14. Intervention for Advanced Language