Grammar and Syntax: Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills - Softcover

Monica Gordon-Pershey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194488355X ISBN 13: 9781944883553

Publisher: Plural Publishing, Inc., 2022

Synopsis

Grammar and Syntax: Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills provides insight for clinical speech-language pathologists (SLPs) as well as students and faculty in communication sciences and disorders programs. Offering a practicing speech-language pathologist’s perspective on school-age language development, this professional reference book focuses on later language development and the crucial role oral grammar and syntax plays in successful academic performance.

This resource synthesizes the four main components of professional expertise for SLPs: academic and theoretical knowledge, strategies for gathering diagnostic evidence, the ability to seek, understand, and apply evolving scientific evidence, and the application of therapeutic strategies. Designed to encourage creative approaches to curriculum-based speech-language therapy practices, Grammar and Syntax: Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills provides the foundation SLPs need to help children and adolescents achieve academic success.

Key Features

• Anticipation guides at the beginning of each chapter stimulate readers to prepare for reading
• Bolded key terms and a comprehensive glossary improve retention of material
• Related resources in addition to cited sources provide jumping off points for deeper understanding
• Tables of language development references to use at-a-glance
• An evidence-based approach that references many primary and historical sources, including the “big names” in each content area
• A unique combination of the perspectives of language development and language disorders with literacy development and literacy difficulties
• A PluralPlus companion website with PowerPoint lecture slides for instructors and study quizzes for students

About this title

About the Author

Monica Gordon-Pershey, EdD, CCC-SLP, is a Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Program, School of Health Sciences, at Cleveland State University (CSU), Cleveland, OH. Since joining CSU in 1995, her teaching experience has included a variety of courses in communication sciences and disorders, with a specialization in graduate language disorders courses. Dr. Gordon-Pershey has authored numerous articles, chapters, and presentations on language and literacy and the pre-professional and professional development of speech-language pathologists and teachers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Plural Publishing, Inc.
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194488355X
• ISBN 13: 9781944883553
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 383