Linguistics in Clinical Practice

This book has been written by practicing clinicians and researchers who are closely involved with individuals who have disorders of communication. <p>The first section provides an overview of basic issues and terminology in clinical linguistics; the second section discusses the purpose and value of assessing specific aspects of an individual’ s linguistic ability and evaluates mainstream linguistic assessment procedures. The third sectionreviews the impact that modern linguistics is having on clinical intervention.</p> <p>For this 2nd edition, the book has been updated to take into account recent research developments and there is a new chapter on the assessment of speech perception.</p>