Organized with a clear framework and student-friendly learning
supports, this textbook helps graduate and undergraduate students
gain essential knowledge that can inform, and transform, their work
with children who need special assistance to acquire language and
literacy abilities to meet multiple communication and learning
needs. Featuring content and questions that encourage deeper
thinking about the nature of disordered and normal development,
this text makes assessment and intervention practices relevant to
contexts of home, classroom, and peer interactions. In particular,
readers will learn to draw on multiple sources of input to develop
an assessment picture for a child at any age and stage of
development as a person with unique strengths and needs, coming
from a particular cultural-linguistic background, and with concerns
that may be attributed to a particular known or unknown but
suspected set of etiological factors. Additionally, readers will
learn to plan interventions that target developmentally appropriate
outcomes in spoken and written language and to apply techniques
that are informed by varied theoretical perspectives and a growing
evidence base. This text is organized into three sections that are
designed to promote understanding of: (1) basic concepts,
taxonomies, policies, and procedures that can inform other
decisions; (2) implications of common etiologies (e.g., primary
language impairment/learning disability, hearing impairment, autism
spectrum disorders, mental retardation/cognitive impairment;
acquired neurological impairment) for modifying assessment and
intervention practices; and (3) appropriate assessment and
intervention procedures across developmental language and literacy
ages, stages, and targets. Instructors can guide students through
the sections and chapters, review and practice material, and
extended exercises, so students can gain confidence they will know
what to do when facing diverse populations of real children in a
variety of settings. Although the book is written primarily for
students in speech-language pathology, it draws on the author's
experience working in schools and classrooms with general and
special education teachers and other interdisciplinary team members
and can be used with (or by) members of other disciplines and by
practitioners as well as students. The ultimate beneficiaries of
this book should be children and adolescents who grow up with
improved abilities to communicate, read, write, listen, and speak
because they received services from professionals who knew what
they were doing and why.
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