Ciara O'Toole

Language Development and Language Impairment offers a problem-based introduction to the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of childhood language developmental disorders. Focuses for the most part on the pre-school years, the period during which the foundations for language development are laidUses a problem-based approach, designed to motivate students to find the information they need to identify and explore learning issues that a particular speech or language issue raisesExamines the development of a child’s phonological system, the growth of vocabulary, the development of grammar, and issues related to conversational and narrative competenceIntegrates information on typical and atypical language development

Language Development and Language Impairment offers a problem-based introduction to the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of childhood language developmental disorders. Focuses for the most part on the pre-school years, the period during which the foundations for language development are laidUses a problem-based approach, designed to motivate students to find the information they need to identify and explore learning issues that a particular speech or language issue raisesExamines the development of a child’s phonological system, the growth of vocabulary, the development of grammar, and issues related to conversational and narrative competenceIntegrates information on typical and atypical language development