Communication disorders in Turkish / edited by Seyhun Topbas and Mehmet Yavas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Topbaş, Seyhun.

Yavaş, Mehmet.

Series:

Communication disorders across languages ; 4.

Communication disorders across languages ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language disorders.

Turkish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; New York : Multilingual Matters, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is the first to deal with Turkish communicative development and disorders, reflecting the use of Turkish by a sizeable population in multilingual settings in Europe, USA, and Australia. In addition to Speech-language Pathologists, the book will be of interest to professionals from related fields such as clinical linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, audiology, and special education. This book presents a compendium of information about the profession of speech-language pathology, cultural differences, assessment materials and research done in communication disorders in Turkey. It also covers acquisition and disorders in multilingual contexts where there is significant Turkish immigration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Conventions Used within this Book

Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1: A Closer Look at the Developing Profession of Speech and Language Pathology (SLP) in Turkey

Chapter 2: The Sound Inventory of Turkish: Consonants and Vowels

Chapter 3 Some Structural Characteristics of Turkish

Chapter 4: The Course of Normal Language Development in Turkish

Chapter 5: Mean Length of Utterance as a Tool for Morphological Assessment in Turkish Children

Chapter 6: Turkish SALT: Computer-Assisted Language Sample Analysis

Chapter 7: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish: Adapting the Test of Early Language Development (TELD-3) as a First Step in Measuring Language Impairments

Chapter 8: Speech Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children

Chapter 9: Language Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children

Chapter 10: Characteristics of Aphasia in Turkish

Chapter 11: Semantic Relatedness Judgments in Normal Turkish-English Adult Bilinguals

Chapter 12: Aspects of Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children

Chapter 13: Language Impairment in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children

Chapter 14: Measuring the Language Abilities of Turkish-English Bilingual Children Using TELD-3: Turkish

Chapter 15: Aspects of Language Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-French Bilingual Children

Chapter 16: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish-German Bilingual Children: Aspects of Assessment and Outcome

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612657092

9781847693952

1847693954

9781282657090

1282657097

9781847692474

1847692478

OCLC:

645099502