Milestones
Subtitle: Normal Speech And Language Development Across the Lifespan
Edition: Pap/DVD edition
Publisher: Plural Publishing
Published: May 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9781597560368
Subjects: Psycholinguistics; Linguistics; Child development; Medical; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language acquisition; Audiology & Speech Pathology
Description: Written as a textbook for the introductory course in Language Development for students in Speech-Language Pathology, Communication Disorders, Special Education, Educational Psychology and Education. It adopts a coherent chronological approach, beginning with responsiveness to speech and language in the womb and working across the lifespan into maturity and beyond. By using a chronological organization, the text helps students relate the material to the whole person at each milestone. It takes a constructive approach, starting with the simplest theoretical apparatus of the youngest infant, gradually increasing in complexity and comprehensiveness one milestone at a time. The organizational background becomes a series of narratives of interesting cases, keeping the theory and structure of language development grounded in real stories. The accompanying DVD uses film clips to richly demonstrate the cases.