Brings together researchers' understanding of the knowledge base in the field, a practicing clinician's feel for the real world, and an experienced teacher's intuition about how to make complex concepts understandable. Addresses subjects such as identifying the language impaired child; collaborative, classroom based language intervention; assessing conversational abilities; intervention with scripts and stories; and metalinguistic awareness. Appendices include descriptions of commercially available tests, and informal assessment techniques. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
About the Author, Rita Naremore
Professor, Dept of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University
"A valuable resource for school speech-language pathologists, who want to develop a beneficial collaborative, classroom-based intervention program." - ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists
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Brings together researchers' understanding of the knowledge base in the field, a practicing clinician's feel for the real world, and an experienced teacher's intuition about how to make complex concepts understandable. Addresses subjects such as identifying the language impaired child; collaborative, classroom based language intervention; assessing conversational abilities; intervention with scripts and stories; and metalinguistic awareness. Appendices include descriptions of commercially available tests, and informal assessment techniques. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)