This book offers parents an extensive guide on child nurturing and building high self esteem for their children. As a bonus it makes fascinating reading, blending Teresa's knowledge and experience with accounts of her own family life.

Each chapter starts with a list of questions parents ask. The writing discusses the issues and the chapter ends with clear advice.

A language/communication difficulty is at the core of many types of special educational needs: specific and general learning difficulties, autism, sensory impairments and specific developmental disorders. A language-based approach to teaching and therapy therefore provides a key to unlocking many children's difficulties with learning and social behaviour in both mainstream and special schools. Underpinned by this ideology and based upon observations of practice and research this book covers issues surrounding language difficulties in educational contexts from pre-school to adolescence. It then presents a language-based approach to educating children with special needs, in mainstream and special schools. A final chapter addresses the use of IT in the education of children with language difficulties. Language Difficulties in an Educational Context has ben written for teachers, speech-language therapists, educational psychologists and managers in education.

Much has been written in recent years about psycholinguistic processing and its application to the assessment of children and adults with language disorders but there has been little published discussion of its application to treatment. Each chapter is written by a speech and language therapist specialising in psycholinguistic approaches to investigation and intervention. Authors were invited to present a single case in one of four given areas - speech processing, lexical processing, sentence processing and pragmatics. The editors have provided introductions to each subject area and a discussion of the findings at the end of each section.

Drawing extensively on the author's investigations in the fields of normal language use in the elderly population and deteriorating language in the dementias, this book seeks to integrate current research in these areas.

Contents:

Ageing and communication; language and language change in the normal elderly; complex strucutres, errors and repair in the normal elderly; language profiles of the normal elderly; language pathology in non-Alzheimer dementias; language pathology in Alzheimer's disease; current service provision for the elderly; speech and language therapy interventions with the lederly; future directions.

Language Therapy offers a comprehensive approach to dealing with the problem of language delay using therapy based on the LARSP and the Laura Lee frameworks.

"Here is a volume which is really three books in one, none of which is heavy to read and which add up to a comprehensive overview of practical assessment and therapy techniques for use with the language impaired child".

This work, for teachers and other professionals working with disabled children, aims to suggest ways of using different forms of technology (microcomputers, communication aids etc) with this client group.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part 1 Working with microcomputers. Part 2 Learning in technological environments. Part 3 Technology as a personal tool.

These In-service materials have been developed by the tutors of a successful training course for assistants supporting pupils in all mainstream schools.

The three sections cover:

* SEN - role of special support assistants

* Ways of working

* Observation and recording

The pack includes:

* Session plans

* Group leader instructions

* Key copy O.H. foils

* Activity sheets

* Readings

* Handouts

Suitable for presentation by EPs or SENCOs.

In a world which fails to manage conflict, those who seek peaceful resolution are urged to promote Mediation as a positive solution.

This publication provides a comprehensive guide to those who aspire to introduce, teach,support and maintain mediation processes for all young people in school.

Topics covered include:

* Circle Time

* Affirmation

* Cooperation

* Emotional Literacy

* Problem Solving

* Conflict Resolution

* Mediation

171 pages, 38 copiable activity sheets.

Suitable for infant, junior and secondary schools.

This developmental psychology text covers all aspects of human development. After an introduction to the history and systems of developmental psychology, the book includes chapters on the biological bases of development, perceptual and motor development, cognitive development, communication and language development, social development, personality and emotional development, moral development and wisdom, motivation and developmental psychopathology.

The first section of this book provides an overview of basic issues and terminology in clinical linguistics; Section II discusses the purpose and value of assessing specific aspects of an individual's linguistic ability and evaluates mainstream linguistic assessment procedures; and the third section reviews the impact that modern linguistics is having on clinical intervention.

The 2nd edition of this textbook shows how linguistic theories have been applied to aphasia and how psycholinguistic applications of linguistics are providing principled models for therapy.

This book provides a clear and practical guide to semantics, syntax and discourse analysis specifically for those working with psychotic patients.

The opening chapter discusses the characteristics and diagnosis of schizophrenic speech. The second chapter gives examples of actual speech samples from schizophrenics. In the third chapter the actual mechanisms of speech production involved in disordered speech are shown by reference to the analyses in chapter two and explanations for the syndrome of speech errors in schizophrenia are offered. Chapter four addresses the question of whether or not schizophrenic speech is simply highly creative - so much so that people have difficulty understanding it. The fifth chapter demonstrates how such disordered speech can often be interpreted if one understands what underlying mechanisms have gone wrong. The final chapter discusses how group therapy based on what we know about normal conversation can help patients to communicate more effectively.

The book will be of interest to speech and language therapists and pathologists - particularly those working in mental hospitals and to psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists and mental health workers.