Download or read book Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties, Book1 written by Joy Stackhouse and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-10-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic hypothesis testing approach to the assessment of speech processing skills in children, and is based on the popular courses run by the authors. The book aims to develop the knowledge and analytical skills of those who need to administer and evaluate assessment materials. Principles of psycholinguistic investigation are introduced through a series of activities relating to theoretical and practical issues. The book demonstrates through case studies how to profile and interpret a child's performance within a developmental psycholinguistic model. It will be of particular interest to practitioners, researchers and students in the following areas: speech and language therapy; education; clinical, educational and developmental psychology and child language and clinical linguistics.