Research Catalog

Title

Assessment of communication and language / edited by Kevin N. Cole, Philip S. Dale, and Donna J. Thal.

Publication

Baltimore : P.H. Brookes, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Cole, Kevin N.
• Dale, Philip S.
• Thal, Donna J.

Description

xix, 351 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• Identifying children with language impairments has grown increasingly complex as a result of rapid and revolutionary progress in the field of communicative disorders. In Assessment of Communication and Language, leading experts in the field analyze the implications of advances in research and theory and suggest improvements to widely used methods and practices. Some of the important issues they discuss are who should be tested for speech/language disorders; how to adapt methods for children from multicultural backgrounds; what to do when English is a child's second language; the pros and cons of norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests; new ways to use parent report; better methods for evaluating narrative discourse skills; what kinds of tests to use to develop an intervention plan; the best methods for verifying program progress; and new discoveries about language acquisition.
• This comprehensive guide to communication and language assessment provides speech-language pathologists, psychologists, researchers, interventionists, special educators, and students with invaluable information and helpful strategies for integrating theoretical and practical advances into their daily work.

Series Statement

Communication and language intervention series ; v. 6

Uniform Title

Communication and language intervention series 6.

Subject

• Child
• Communicative disorders in children > Diagnosis
• Infant
• Language Disorders
• Language Disorders > diagnosis
• Language Tests
• Language disorders in children > Diagnosis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Predicaments in early identification of specific language impairment : does the early bird always catch the worm? / Donna J. Thal and Jeanette Katich -- Language diversity : implications for assessment / Vera F. Gutierrez-Clellen -- Prelinguistic predictors of later language development / Rebecca B. McCathren, Steven F. Warren, and Paul J. Yoder -- Phonological assessment using hierarchical framework / Carol Stoel-Gammon -- Linguistic theory and the assessment of grammar / Laurence B. Leonard and Julia A. Eyer -- Evaluating narrative discourse skills / Allyssa McCabe -- Cognitive referencing in language assessment / Kevin N. Cole and Marc E. Fey -- Parent report assessment of language and communication / Philip S. Dale -- "Show me X" : new views of an old assessment technique / Mabel L. Rice and Ruth V. Watkins -- Plotting the complexities of language sample analysis : linear and nonlinear dynamical models of assessment / Julia L. Evans -- Assessing children's language in meaningful contexts / Angela Notari-Syverson and Angela Losardo -- Dynamic assessment : the model and its language applications / Elizabeth D. Peña -- Progress in assessing : describing, and defining child language disorder / Jon F. Miller.

ISBN

1557661936 (recycled paper)

LCCN

^^^96020950^

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