Attention and Memory in Child Language Disorders
Contribution to Book
Handbook of Child Language Disorders
Richard G. Schwartz
The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and remediation of language disorders in children. The book includes chapters focusing on specific groups of childhood disorders (SLI, autism, genetic syndromes, dyslexia, hearing impairment); the linguistic, perceptual, genetic, neurobiological, and cognitive bases of these disorders; and the context of language disorders (bilingual, across dialects, and across languages). To examine the nature of deficits, their assessment and remediation across populations, chapters address the main components of language (morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and related areas (processing, memory, attention, executive function such as reading and writing). Finally, even though there is extensive information regarding research and clinical methods in each chapter, there are individual chapters that focus directly on research methods.
Gillam, R., Montgomery, J., & Gillam, S. (2009). Memory and attention in children with language impairments. In R. G. Schwartz (Ed), Handbook of Child Language Disorders (pp. 201-125). New York: Psychology Press.