Phonological Development And Disorders in Children ― A Multilingual Perspective

Communication researchers, speech therapists, and educators from around the world investigate the effects of language specificity on phonological acquisition and disorder. The 17 contributions describe empirical studies of children learning languages that are typologically very different. Both monolingual and bilingual contexts are studied, in both typical and atypical development. The data are presented so that they can be used by speech and language pathologists in their work with children. Hua teaches at the U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and Dodd is a researcher at the U. of Queensland, Australia. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Zhu Hua, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She is the author of Phonological Development in Specific Contexts: Studies of Chinese-Speaking Children and joint author of DEAP: Differential Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology. She has published extensively on child language (Journal of Child Language, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, etc.) and on cross-cultural pragmatics (Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua, Language and Intercultural Communication, etc).
Barbara Dodd, PhD, is Research Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Speech disordered children; joint editor of Hearing by Eye: The psychology of lip-reading, Evaluating Theories of Language: Implications from communication disorders, Hearing by Eye II: Advances in the psychology of speech-reading and audio-visual speech, joint author of QUIL: Queensland University Inventory of Literacy, PIPA: Preschool and Primary Inventory of Phonological Awareness, and DEAP: Differential Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology.