Language development and language impairment : a problem-based introduction / Paul Fletcher and Ciara O'Toole.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Overview -- 1.1 The effects of pre-school language impairment -- 1.2 The ambient language -- 1.3 Typical language development -- 1.4 Atypical language development -- Part 2: The first year of life -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Social development and language learning -- 2.3 Cognitive development and language development -- 2.4 Speech production in infancy -- 2.5 Speech perception in infancy -- 2.6 Further Problems -- Part 3: Sounds -- 3.1 The learning task -- 3.2 The role of perception -- 3.3 The production of vowels -- 3.4 The production of consonants -- 3.5 Summary -- 3.6 Further Problems -- Part 4: Words -- 4.1 Early vocabulary development -- 4.2 Learning to label: first steps -- 4.3 Building a lexicon -- 4.4 Lexical growth and individual differences -- 4.5 Beyond nouns -- 4.6 A bridge to syntax -- 4.7 Further Problems -- Part 5: Combining words -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Transcribing and analyzing language samples -- 5.3 Verb forms: auxiliaries and inflections -- 5.4 Interrogatives: asking questions -- 5.5 Complex sentences -- 5.6 Further Problems -- Part 6: Beyond the sentence -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Early pragmatic competence -- 6.3 Discourse skils 1: Conversation -- 6.4 Discourse skills 2: Telling stories -- 6.5 Presupposition -- 6.6 Pragmatic language difficulties: implications for treatment -- 6.7 Further Problems.

"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 laid Uses 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 raises Examines the development of a child's phonological system, the growth of vocabulary, the development of grammar, and issues related to conversational and narrative competence Integrates information on typical and atypical language development "-- Provided by publisher.