Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing and Communicating

by Rhea Paul

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.

Elsevier eBook hosted by Vitalsource

Genres: Nonfiction, Textbooks

784 pages, ebook

Published December 28, 2011

Reviews

[Cherish Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

(3☆ Got something out of, but wouldn’t read again)
This was my least favorite book in grad school because of the way the book is laid out. I felt like I was reading a dictionary. It has so much information. Too much to digest in a semester. After I graduated, the book has been very resourceful. I think it's just too much information for one semester.

[Caillé Eire · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comprehensive, easy to digest, and well laid out, this is one of my favourite books from school. It's a good overview of the field of paediatric language disorders/delays with lots of references and places to find more information. I still use it as a reference book as a practicing SLP.

[Batool Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great source to keep!

[Jacquelyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good reference, but good grief this thing reads like an encyclopedia. Better subheads and an outline with each chapter would have helped a great deal. I couldn't help wondering whether Paul & Norbury thought they were authoring THE only reference an SLP working with child language would need.

[Tracy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great reference that I will continue to use!
Obviously didn't read the entire book.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a little long getting through, but I did it for school. I kept the because because it is a great source of information.