Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties / A Psycholinguistic Framework: 1 - Stackhouse Joy Whurr Publishers Ltd, 2006 - 382

This book presents a systematic hypothesis testing approach to the assessment of speech processing skills in children. Preface, Acknowledgements, Conventions, Why Psycholinguistic Assessment?, What Do Tests Really Test? I - Auditory Discrimination and Speech, What Do Tests Really Test? II - Phonological Awareness, The Assessment Framework, Profiling Children's Speech Processing Skills, Building a Model, Phases of Development I: From Cries to Words, Phases of Development II: From Speech to Literacy, The Unfolding Deficit I: Barriers to Speech, The Unfolding Deficit II: Barriers to Literacy, Selecting and Designing Tests, A Framework for Practice and Research, Appendices, References, Index.

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