Communication Disorders in Turkish

This volume is the first to deal with Turkish communicative development and disorders, reflecting the use of Turkish by a sizeable population in multilingual settings in Europe, USA, and Australia. In addition to Speech-language Pathologists, the book will be of interest to professionals from related fields such as clinical linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, audiology, and special education. This book presents a compendium of information about the profession of speech-language pathology, cultural differences, assessment materials and research done in communication disorders in Turkey. It also covers acquisition and disorders in multilingual contexts where there is significant Turkish immigration.

Seyhun Topbaş is a Professor of Speech and Language Therapy at İstanbul Medipol University, Turkey. She is one of the pioneers of the Speech & Language Therapy profession in Turkey, and the founder of the first graduate and undergraduate programs in Speech Language Therapy in the country, Dr Topbaş has developed standardized tests and has authored many articles and chapters in international and national journals. She has written and been the editor of three volumes in speech and language disorders as well as an international book published by Multilingual Matters titled Communication Disorders in Turkish (co-authored). She is a member of ASHA, CPLOL and a member of IALP, ICPLA, and on the editorial board of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. Currently, she is Head of the national Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Turkey.

Mehmet Yavaş is professor of Linguistics at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. His main area is phonology and its application to language acquisition and to speech and language disorders. His articles on Applied Phonology have appeared in numerous journals. He is the principal author of Avaliaçao Fonologica da Criança (a phonological assessment procedure for Brazilian Portuguese). His other publications are Phonological Disorders in Children (Routledge, 1991), First and Second Language Phonology (Singular, 1994), Phonology: Development and Disorders (Singular 1998), Applied English Phonology (Blackwell, 2006).