Language and Cognitive Process in Developmental Disorders (Special Issue of the Journal Language and Cognitive Processes)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: June 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781841699103
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Psychology; Audiology & Speech Pathology; Cognitive Psychology; Developmental - Child; Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology
First sentence: This paper presents the case for a mapping theory of developmental language impairment, which branches into a theory that Specific Language Impairment (SLI) arises from impaired phonological processing and the consequent disruption of the mapping process through which the words and sentence structure of a language are established.