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Childhood speech, language, and listening problems : what every parent should know
- Author
- Hamaguchi, Patricia McAleer, 1959-
- Title
- Childhood speech, language, and listening problems : what every parent should know / Patricia McAleer Hamaguchi.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Published
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2010.
- Description
- vi, 314 p. ; 24 cm.
- Cover title
- Childhood speech, language & listening problems
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-302) and index.
- Contents
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- What is speech?
- What is language?
- What is listening?
- How do children learn to communicate?
- Speech, language, and listening milestones
- When to get help
- Warning signs to look for
- Whom to see
- Where to go
- The evaluation (aka the assessment)
- Special considerations : testing infants and preschoolers
- The numbers used to measure performance
- After the evaluation: using public school services in the United States
- Options for speech and language therapy
- Stuttering
- Common pronunciation problems
- Common voice problems
- Toddlers and preschoolers with delayed speech or language
- When learning new words comes slowly : vocabulary problems
- The "him not talkin' right" child : morphological and syntax problems
- The "whatchamacallit, um, thing over there" child : a word retrieval problem
- The "I don't know how to explain it" child : sequencing, referential, and divergent language problems
- Social language and playing: when something's not right
- The "What? Did you say something? child : a central auditory processing problem
- The "I forgot what you said" child : an auditory memory problem
- The "I don't understand what I'm supposed to do" child : a language processing problem (aka receptive language delay)
- Common causes of speech, language, and listening problems
- Autism, cerebral palsy, hearing impairment, and other special conditions.
- Subject headings
- Communicative disorders in children--Popular works.
- ISBN
- 9780470532164 (pbk.) 0470532165 (pbk.)