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BOOK DETAILS
he focus of this book continues to be about children who do not acquire language normally. It is intended both for students who are learning about children’s language disorders in order to help the children and for professionals wanting to update their knowledge in order to serve the children better. Language is the most powerful and important human ability. It affects educational achievement, relationships, and entire lives. Children with language disorders do not have easy access to this ability and are at a severe disadvantage. They struggle with learning and with human interactions; a language disorder alters a child’s relationships with caregivers, undermines academic success, disturbs interpersonal relationships, limits vocational potential, and isolates the child from mainstream society. This edition continues the organizational structure of the previous edition. There are three parts. The first provides an overview/review of normal language in two chapters—the bases of language and communication and normal language development in children and adolescents. Nine chapters that focus on the language difficulties of different populations comprise the second part of the book.
Several of these chapters address language problems associated with children with intellectual disabilities, specific learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, auditory impairments, cultural and linguistic differences, and acquired language impairment, plus a chapter that looks at language issues associated with other special populations of children, such as gifted children and those with cleft palate. Two other chapters discuss the language of preschoolers with specific language impairment and adolescents with language impairment. These two chapters bookend the chapter on children with specific learning disabilities. The ordering of the three chapters is purposeful, attempting to convey the progression of specific language impairment in preschool children through the early school years and into and through adolescence.
Chapisha Maoni