Bill Wells

This is the third book in the series “Children’s Speech and Literacy Difficulties” and is based on research and practice with school-age children with persisting speech and associated difficulties. It focuses on the psycholinguistic nature of their difficulties, how to design intervention programmes, and how intervention outcomes might be measured. It will serve as a practical handbook and will contain usefuls word lists, tips and photocopiable sheets in the appendix. Each chapter will summarise recent research findings and close with a bulleted summary of the main points in the chapter.Provides an explanation of the psycholinguistic approach and how to implement it, and integrate it with other approaches.Includes case studies

THE JACKBOOT - A novel inspired by true events, includes Book 1 and Book 2.Gold - was the only currency that the neutral Americans would accept from the British in World War II.Gold - was also what Adolph Hitler desperately needed to fuel his ruthless Nazi war machine. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, fearing that Britain was next to be crushed under the Nazi jackboot, makes the bold decision to move the country's gold reserves and securities to the safety of Canada. It would be the single greatest movement of wealth in history. The top-secret operation is code named Operation Fish. The outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA) finds out about Operation Fish. They form an unusual alliance with the Nazis to steal a massive amount of the precious British gold. Hitler, egged on by Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels assigns his special force, the Brandenburgers to carry out the gold heist. The Brandenburgers are led by one of his favorite officers, Major Max von Seeckt, an Eton educated rapidly rising star within the Nazi hierarchy. In an incredible twist of fate, RAF Spitfire pilot Peter Legh, Max von Seeckt's old nemesis from his days at Eton is granted a 48 hour leave from the Battle of Britain. While on leave, Legh meets and falls for a beautiful Welsh girl who had inadvertently stumbled onto the Nazi/IRA plot. With the help of a gnarly veteran from World War I and a lone agent from MI5, can the young couple stop them?....Or will Major Max von Seeckt and his Brandenburgers pull off the greatest gold heist in history?Book 1 - The Long Road to Parys Mountain: We follow the journey of Legh and von Seeckt. It takes us from the hallowed halls of Eton to San Francisco, California and from Adolph Hitler's Berghoff in Austria to a smoke-filled pub in Dublin, Ireland. It continues gathering pace from Oslo, Norway to Buckingham Palace, London and finally from Churchill's War Room deep underground in Whitehall to the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool.Book 2 - Forty-Eight Hours on Anglesey: The story continues to follow Legh and von Seeckt as the clock ticks down to an inevitable final conflict, in a breathtaking 48-hour climax on the wind-swept Isle of Anglesey, off the rugged coast of North Wales.

Ken Roy, who has led a simple and conflict-free life for sixty-six years, retires from the only place he has ever worked. Along with the recent deaths of his wife and lifelong best friend, Ken finds himself in an unforeseen and challenging phase. He volunteers at a hospital, where he befriends a patient, Rhaymi Summers. Following a one-car accident involving Rhaymi, and after speaking with an experienced counselor at the hospital, Ken suspects her boyfriend is abusing the college-aged woman. A short time later, Rhaymi arrives at Ken's house unannounced and injured. Ken convinces Rhaymi to attend a support group for abuse victims. Rhaymi is unexpectedly absent from the meeting, while Ken learns of the many evils of being in an abusive relationship.After rescuing a desperate Rhaymi one evening, Ken is erroneously jailed by her boyfriend's father, a powerful police captain. With the help of his neighbor, the Editor-in-Chief of the city's newspaper, Ken is released, but not before Rhaymi's continued demise, which ultimately determines the fate of Ken's future.

Children’s Intonation is a practical guide that focuses on the nature, causes and assessment of intonation problems for children and adolescents. Highlighting the importance of intonation for everyday conversational interaction and the implications of this for teaching and therapy contexts, this book addresses the following questions: How and when do children learn to use intonation for the purposes of interaction? As children get older, does intonation become more important or less important for communication?How might intonation be used to support or compensate for other aspects of language?What are the implications for practitioners, parents and caregivers when interacting with young children? Clinically oriented, this book explores these questions through case studies that cover a range of developmental communication difficulties including autism spectrum disorders, hearing impairment and specific speech and language difficulties. It provides readers with a tool for profiling children’s intonation skills, a developmental phase model to explain typical and atypical intonation development, a psycholinguistic model of intonation processing, interactional perspectives on intonation use, and consideration of intonation in relation to both written and spoken language. It also includes acccess to a companion website with extra resources.

This book develops the ideas presented in Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties Book I: A Psycholinguistic Framework by focussing on how the information gathered within a psycholinguistic framework can be used to plan intervention for children with speech, wordfinding and phonological awareness problems. It illustrates how the psycholinguistic approach has been implemented in different contexts and with different cases through a series of practical activities and discussion of current research relevant to practice.

This work presents a systematic hypothesis testing approach to assessing phonological processing skills in children, and is based on the courses run by the authors. Principles of psycholinguistic/cognitive neuropsychological testing are introduced through a series of activities aimed at heightening awareness of theoretical and practical issues. This book aims to develop the knowledge and analytical skills of those who need to administer and evaluate assessment materials. This book may be of interest to practitioners, researchers and students in the following areas: speech and language therapy; education; clinical, educational and development psychology; child language and clinical linguistics.