Product Description: First published in 1989 as Language and Communication in Mentally Handicapped People this collection is a comprehensive overview of research into all aspects of communication in people with learning disabilities. The topics covered range from children's development and the acquisition of sounds through to the communicative environments of adults and the use of subtle conversational devices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book focuses on a critical period for pupils between the ages of nine and thirteen when the demands made on children's literacy change fundamentally, and when children establish life-time patterns of reading and non-reading. It provides a framework for teachers and managers to help set up a whole-school approach to literacy, based on a series of steps which enable managers to find out how literacy is perceived by teachers and effectively used within classroom contexts...read more

Product Description: Twelve contributions present an up-to-date picture of current research into the language processes of mentally handicapped people. Topics range from the development of phonology to the acquisition and use of subtle conversational devices to a demonstration that the study of language and communication can do more than provide a framework for training programs...read more

Product Description: CHILDREN WITH LANGUAGE DISABILITIES (map)