Children without Language
Subtitle: From Dysphasia to Autism
Contributors: James Grieve (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 17, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780195175028
First sentence: For more than fifty years, communication disorders and language disorders in children have been the focus of intense debate in the field of developmental pathology.
Description: "Most children begin to speak between the ages of two and three years, but not all of them. In Children without Language, eminent psychoanalyst and linguistic scholar Laurent Danon-Boilean continues the work he began in The Silent Child by examining how children overcome disabilities ranging from autism and infantile psychosis to congenital aphasia and find their way from not speaking toward communication and speech."

"Combining linguistic, cognitive, and psychoanalytic approaches, Children without Language provides a unique perspective on speech and communication disorders in children, and so will be an essential volume for speech therapists, developmental psychologists, linguistics shoulders, and anyone wishing in reflect seriously on why we speak and how communication occurs."--Jacket.