Overview

Communication Development and Disorders for Partners in Service offers an introduction to topics related to typical and atypical language development considered most important to those with the potential to participate in the clinical service provision continuum. Topics include:

• definition and description of language
• theories of language development
• precursors for language development
• language skills, which includes prelinguistic, earlier and later linguistic, and metalinguistic
• collaborative professional relationships
• language delays, disorders, and differences
• aspects of the process of evaluation
• aspects of the process of intervention

Communication Development and Disorders for Partners in Service equips participants in the service provision continuum to describe the components of language; interpret the implications of theories of language for interaction, evaluation, and intervention; describe the accomplishments in typical language development; compare and contrast typical with atypical language development; and describe the continuum of evaluation and intervention with appreciation of their contributions to this process.

Audience

Primary Subject: Special Education
Secondary Subject: Speech and Language Pathology / Language Development and Disorders
Audience Level: Professional/Textbook - 90 Days

• Preface.
• Description Language:
  • Definition and of Components.
• Language
  • Theories of Language Development.
  • Precursors for Language Development.
• Language Development:
  • Prelinguistic Skills.
  • Earlier Linguistic Skills.
  • Later Linguistic Skills.
  • Metalinguistic Skills.
• Language:
  • Delays, Disorders, and Differences.
  • Relationships in Service Provision.
  • The Process of Evaluation.
  • The Process of Intervention.

About The Authors

Cheryl Gunter, Ph.D.

Dr. Cheryl D. Gunter, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, earned her doctoral degree from The University of Texas in Austin, TX. She is a member of the faculty in the Department of Communicative Disorders at West Chester University in West Chester, PA, where she holds the rank of Professor.

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Mareile Koenig, Ph.D.

Dr. Mareile A. Koenig, Ph.D. CCC-SLP, BCBA, earned her doctoral degree from The University of Illinois in Urbana, IL. She is a member of the faculty in the Department of Communicative Disorders at West Chester University in West Chester, PA, where she holds the rank of Associate Professor.

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