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Genre/Form: | Collected Works |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith R Johnston |
ISBN: | 1932054456 9781932054453 |
OCLC Number: | 62787322 |
Notes: | Contains updated and expanded essays previously published in The language intervention digest. |
Description: | xiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Preface -- Foundations of practice -- 1. Factors that influence language development -- 2. Evidence? What evidence? -- 3. Doing what works -- 4. Things that don't add up -- Language disorders in children -- 5. Pitfalls and promises in the study of SLI -- 6. The morphology gene -- 7. Difficulties with language formulation -- 8. Memory lessons -- 9. Being smart -- 10. Never a poet -- Auditory perception and language disorder -- 11. More than a crash-test dummy -- 12. CAPD : 20 years of debate and still counting -- 13. Listen up! -- Issues in assessment -- 14. Fact, fashion, and funding systems -- 15. Diagnostic categories and public policy -- 16. An old dog and two new, uh, tricks -- 17. Dynamic assessment -- 18. To test or not to test -- 19. "But that's another story" -- 20. Narrative schemes and processes. Issues in intervention -- 21. Fit, focus, and functionality : an essay on early language intervention -- 22. Reinforcement or motivation? -- 23. ABA revisited -- 24. Do toddlers learn to learn? -- Exploring the scope of language intervention -- 25. Grammar books -- 26. One, two, buckle my shoe -- 27. The best rout to reading -- 28. Sharing our knowledge -- 29. Animal charades -- 30. Blackbirds and fiddlers three -- Facilitating vocabulary growth -- 31. The skin of a living thought -- 32. And inflections to boot -- 33. An anatomy of verb learning -- Responding to diversity -- 34. Everybody's different -- 35. Cultural differences in parent-child interaction -- 36. Bilingual expectations -- 37. Bilingualism : a tale of two countries -- 38. Vive la différence -- Appendixes -- A. Cross-reference chart of essay contents -- B. List of websites cited -- C. Standardized tests and other assessment tools : brief descriptions and publishers -- D. SALT -- systematic analysis of language transcripts -- E. Alternate learning activities and discussion questions -- Glossary -- References -- Author index -- Subject index. |
Responsibility: | Judith Johnston. |
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