Speech, language, and hearing disorders have the potential to affect a student communicatively, socially, psychologically,
and academically. In this work the authors cover the range of impairments found in school-age children with suggestions
for teacher intervention.
Topic coverage includes:
1. Legal issues and service delivery models
2. Normal aspects of communication
3. The development of language and phonology
4. Phonological disorders
5. Children with limited language
6. School-age and adolescent language disorders
7. Dialectal differences: African American English as a case study