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

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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 area of content A unique combination of the perspectives of language development and language disorders with literacy development and literacy difficulties. A PluralPlus companion website

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