This exceptional volume offers a wealth of valuable information for speech-language pathologists who work with preschool or school-age children with language-related disabilities.

Six topics are addressed in depth:

• Factors involved in the normal processing of oral and written discourse in the educational setting
• Characteristics of oral and written classroom language and discourse
• Language-related learning problems in:
  Preschool children

  School-age children-including problems in syntax/morphology, phonology, semantics, discourse processing, metalinguistics and pragmatics

  Assessment of language abilities in school-age children

  Interdisciplinary language intervention, with discussions on:

  Service delivery models

  Issues related to interdisciplinary collaboration

  Intervention methods, with an extensive series of goals

  accompanied by procedures for achieving each goal

This is an abridged version of the widely acclaimed Language-Related Learning Disabilities.

Age: 6 to 11