Preschool Language Disorders Resource Guide

Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of Iowa. Although her formal training and subsequent clinical practice have focused mostly on normal and disordered child language, she has published a number of papers on the discourse management performance and challenges facing young children who stutter. Throughout her professional career, she has been particularly interested in multicultural aspects of "best practices" and is a strong proponent of the critical role they play in service delivery to all clients. Her current passion lies in investigating client-clinician relationships for insights into clinical success.

SECTION 1: Core Knowledge. SECTION 2: Procedures. Assessment and Evaluation, Preassessment, Assessment/Evaluation, Intervention. SECTION 3: Case Studies. "Late Talker" with Probable Diagnosis of SLI, Presence of a Preschool Language Disorder with SLI Likely. SECTION 4: Forms For Evaluating Preschoolers" Language And Their Success In Treatment. Informal Preschool Language Assessment Checklist, Form for Language Sample Collection at Home or in the Classroom, For On-Line Sample Collection, Formal Preschool Language Assessment/Evaluation Checklist, Language Treatment Planning Protocol.