Developmental Speech and Language Disorders [Hardcover]

Lorian Baker (Author), Dennis P. Cantwell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 10, 1987 | ISBN-10: 0898624002 | ISBN-13: 978-0898624007 | Edition: 1

This book outlines the course of normal speech and language development, then provides a complete review of assessment methods to diagnose childhood syndromes involving language. The volume focuses on "how to approach" observation, selection of assessment procedures, interpretation of assessment results, differential diagnosis, and the establishment of treatment goals rather than on "how to" assess, diagnose, and treat language impaired children.
This book brings to clinicians from all backgrounds a framework for interdisciplinary integration of speech and language disorders, and would be of interest to child psychiatrists, child psychologists, social workers, speech/language pathologists, teachers, educational therapists, and parents.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Finally, a book for clinicians on developmental speech and language problems! This most welcome volume facilitates the dialogue among professionals who care for children with difficulties in communication. The blending of child psychiatric and psycholinguistic vantage points by two eminent scholars makes this a most readable volume. Drs. Cantwell and Baker provide historical, epidemiological, and clinical information in a readable format that includes material ranging from definitions to diagnoses and treatment. Developmental communication disorders tax the ingenuity of clinicians from many disciplines who try to help children; this book goes a long way towards showing how professional can talk and create together for the sake of those children. --Theodore Shapiro, M.D. Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Cornell University Medical College

About the Author

DENNIS CANTWELL is currently Joseph Campbell Professor of Child Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he is also Director of Residency Training in Child Psychiatry. Dr. Cantwell is Coordinator of Professional Education in the Division of Mental Retardation and Child Psychiatry at the University of California and the Neuropsychiatric Institute in Los Angeles.

LORIAN BAKER is a psycholinguist with advanced training in psychology, linguistics, neuropsychology, and neurolinguistics. She is currently on the faculty at UCLA in the Department of Child Psychiatry. Her areas of expertise are infantile autism, developmental language disorders, and childhood language acquisition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 214 pages
• Publisher: Guilford Press; 1 edition (April 10, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898624002
• ISBN-13: 978-0898624007
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,239,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An important seminal work in a little understood area., September 29, 1999

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This review is from: Developmental Speech and Language Disorders (Hardcover)

In exhaustive research over a three-year period, psychiatrist Cantwell, linguist Baker and colleagues, including Howard Grey, Ph.D. Richard Mattison, M.D. and Beth Phillips, M.A. looked at the rarely considered incidence of psychiatric disorders in children with speech and language disorders. That study, conducted at Community Speech and Hearing Center in Tarzana, California contributed a great deal to the authors' understanding of factors affecting the development of speech and language in the young child. Too often, texts dealing with speech and language acquisition reflect a narrow educationally-based developmental focus without consideration of the impact of psychoemotional, biochemical, or neurological forces. This text is highly recommended for developmental teachers, theorists and therapists seeking such a comprehensive orientation.