Pragmatic Disability in Children

Pragmatics has become an increasingly important topic in speech therapy. This book presents its material in a form accessible to practitioners and addresses the applied areas of most concern to speech therapists. Preface.

General Preface.

Chapter 1 Introducing pragmatic disability.

Chapter 2 Pragmatics and the study of language use.

Chapter 3 Studing pragmatic disability.

Chapter 4 Pragmatic ability in children: development and disorders.

Chapter 5 Explaining pragmatic disability: linguistic and pragmatic factors.

Chapter 6 Alternative explanations.

Chapter 7 Assessing pragmatic disability.

Chapter 8 Future directions.

References.

Index.

Michael McTear and Gina Conti-Ramsden are the authors of Pragmatic Disability in Children: Assessment and Intervention, published by Wiley. Pragmatics has become an increasingly important topic in speech therapy. This book presents its material in a form accessible to practitioners and addresses the applied areas of most concern to speech therapists.