Description
Book SynopsisEach of the contributors deals in depth with a major issue in pragmatics. The breadth of the topics addressed across the chapters offer a comprehensive look at clinical pragmatics. This book should be of interest to speech and language therapists, and to educational psychologists and teachers.
Table of ContentsA retrospective look at clinical pragmatics, T.M. Gallagher; Language and social skills: implications for clinical assessment and intervention with school-age children, T.M. Gallagher; Everyday events: the role of language assessment and intervention, J. Felson Duchan; Using ethnography to bring children's communicative and cultural worlds into focus, M.B. Crago and E.B. Cole; A functionalist approach to language and its implications for assessment and intervention, E. Bates, D. Thal and B. MacWhinney; Pragmatic characteristics of the child with specific language impairment: an interactionist perspective, H.K. Craig; Discourse: a means of understanding normal and disordered language, M. Mentis and S.A. Thompson; Experimental realism: clinical implications, J. Murna; Profiling pragmatic abilities in the emerging language of young children, A.M. Wetherby; A discourse approach to language disorders: investigating complex sentence production, E. Skarakis-Doyle and M. Mentis; Reciprocal book reading: a discourse-based intervention strategy for the child with atypical language development, D. Kirchner; Facilitating grammatical development: The contribution of pragmatics, L.B. Leonard and M.E. Fey.
