Part I. Conceptual frameworks for consideration -- Innovative language literacy intervention at school-age levels: what it takes to get there -- The continuum of language disorders and learning disabilities definitional and eligibility issues -- Integrating spoken and written language: an eye toward becoming literate -- From preliteracy to the literacies of school: how curriculum-relevant intervention begins -- Part II. Practical applications for the frameworks -- Exploring elements of processing and comprehension: getting beneath the "tip-of-the-iceberg" of symptoms and intervention choices -- What language intervention "looks like" at school-age levels: the intervention-assessment connection -- Seeing the world through connected text: bringing structure and content, macro and micro pieces together (part 1) -- Seeing the world through connected text: bringing structure and content, macro and micro pieces together (part 2) -- Part III. Toward a summary -- Back into the field: starting to pull the missing pieces together -- The end becomes a new beginning: evaluating intervention sessions and sequences
Summary
"Language and Literacy Connections: Intervention for School-Age Children and Adolescents takes readers on a path of knowledge steeped in principles and practical applications. This much-needed new text uniquely integrates language learning and disorders and literacy together in a coherent and cohesive narrative that covers the challenges facing school-age students from early elementary levels through high school. Using past and current research and interventions from speech-language pathology (SLP) and reading and literacy arenas, the authors present transcripts, cases, and detailed intervention"--Publisher's description
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2023)
