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Kotby, M. Nasser; El-Sady, Safaa; Hegazi, Mona – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
The team of the Unit of Phoniatrics and Logopedics of the Ain Shams University Clinic in Cairo, Egypt, has worked for three and half decades to spread awareness of child language disorders. This involved publications to inform the public, as well as health care professionals, about the needs of children with delayed language, through description…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Publications
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Craig-Unkefer, Lesley; Camarata, Stephen – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: Facilitating language development in children with specific language impairment (SLI) who are learning African American English (AAE) as their first dialect requires clinicians to consider grammatical, lexical, and cultural differences. The purpose of this article is to examine 2 intervention methods that have an extensive history of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intervention, Delayed Speech, Language Impairments
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Ladage, Jennifer S. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
As the number of international adoptions has increased over the past 2 decades, so has awareness and understanding of the risks associated with the conditions to which these children have been exposed. Prenatal alcohol and/or drug exposure, infectious diseases, malnutrition, and psychosocial deprivation all contribute to the profound growth and…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Disadvantaged Youth, Developmental Delays, Adoption
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Fee, E. Jane – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Outlines the stages of prosodic development that children follow from the beginning of word acquisition through the end of the second year of life. How these stages can be used to provide a model for treatment when working with children who display delayed phonological development is addressed. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Delayed Speech, Developmental Stages, Intervention