The term emergent literacy is used to describe pre-literate children's skills related to reading
and writing before their achievement of conventional literacy (Sulzby, 1985; Whitehurst & …

Nonverbal learning disability (NLD) is a diagnostic category that is unfamiliar to most speech-
language pathologists. This brief tutorial describes NLD's characteristics, a theoretical model …

As clinical speech-language pathology moves toward a progressive use of qualitative
research methodologies and applications for clinical purposes, it is helpful to know how the …

Few models appropriately or adequately describe the literacy development experiences of
children with atypical communication development, such as those with language impairment …

The present study investigated the conversational skills of a group of 18 children (aged 6 to
16 years) with severe and profound hearing loss. Participants included both hearing aid …

Competence and incompetence are constructs that emerge in the social milieu of everyday
life. Individuals are continually making and revising judgments about each other's abilities …

There is considerable disagreement in the literature and among clinicians about the success
of facilitated communication, a new method of augmentative communication being used with …

Language and language incompetence do not exist as independent phenomena in the
heads of speakers; they present themselves in contexts of interaction. From an interaction …

This article adapts Bakhtin's term “heteroglossia” as a framework for analyzing Miskitu
children's multilingual speech on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua …

This book is the first to summarize the voluminous literature on the development of cognitive,
codification, language, and expressive/affective (CCCE) skills from a clinical standpoint …