Language Disorders in Children and Adults (eBook)

Professor Shula Chiat, department of language and communication sciences, City University, London, UK. James Law is the editor of Language Disorders in Children and Adults: Psycholinguistic Approaches to Therapy, published by Wiley. Jane Marshall is the editor of Language Disorders in Children and Adults: Psycholinguistic Approaches to Therapy, published by Wiley.

Language Disorders in Children and Adults 1
Contents 7
Acknowledgements 11
Contributors 12
General Introduction Making new connections: in whose interests? 15
Part 1: Phonological processing 23
Chapter 1.1 Introduction 25
Chapter 1.2 Christopher Lumpship: developing phonological representations in a child with an auditory processing deficit 31
Chapter 1.3 Remediating auditory processing deficits in adults with aphasia 56
Chapter 1.4 Afterword 78
Part 2: Lexical processing 83
Chapter 2.1 Introduction 85
Chapter 2.2 When is a rolling pin a ‘roll the pen’: a clinical insight into lexical problems 91
Chapter 2.3 A treatment for anomia combining semantics, phonology and orthography 116
Chapter 2.4 Afterword 144
Part 3: Sentence processing 149
Chapter 3.1 Introduction 151
Chapter 3.2 Colourful semantics: thematic role therapy 157
Chapter 3.3 Mapping therapy with a fluent dysphasic? 176
Chapter 3.4 Afterword 197
Part 4: Pragmatics: a breakdown in contextual meaning 199
Chapter 4.1 Introduction 201
Chapter 4.2 A case study of a child with pragmatic difficulties: assessment and intervention 208
Chapter 4.3 The treatment of communication deficits following right hemisphere lesion 232
Chapter 4.4 Afterword 249
Part 5: Postscript 253
Chapter 5.1 Making new connections: are patterns emerging? 255
Chapter 5.2 Psycholinguistic applications to language therapy 264
References 269