Communication Disorders in Turkish, livre ebook

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.

PART I Prologue

Chapter 1: A Closer Look at the Developing Profession of Speech and Language Pathology - Seyhun Topbaş

Chapter 2: The Sound Inventory of Turkish: Consonants and Vowels - Handan Kopkallı-Yavuz

Chapter 3: Some Structural Characteristics of Turkish - Mehmet Yavaş

PART II Communication Development and Disorders in Monolingual Settings

Chapter 4: Normal Language Development in Turkish - Ayhan Aksu-Koç

Chapter 5: MLU as a Tool for Morphological Assessment in Turkish Children - Pınar Ege

Chapter 6: Turkish SALT: Computer Assisted Language Sample Analysis - Funda Acarlar and Judith Johnston

Chapter 7: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish: Adapting the TELD-3 as a First Step in Measuring Language Impairments - Seyhun Topbaş

Chapter 8: Speech Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children - Ümran Tüfekçioğlu

Chapter 9: Language Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children - Ümran Tüfekçioğlu

Chapter 10: Characteristics of Aphasia in Turkish - İlknur Maviş

Chapter 11: Semantic Relatedness Judgments in Normal Turkish-English Bilinguals - İlknur Maviş and Swathi Kiran

PART III Communication Disorders in Multilingual Settings

Chapter 12: Aspects of Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children - Kutlay Yağmur and Elma Nap-Koff

Chapter 13: Language Impairment in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children - Jan de Jong, Nazife Çavuş and Anne Baker

Chapter 14: Measuring the Language Abilities of Turkish-English Bilingual Children Using TELD-3-T - Theodoros Marinis and Duygu Özge

Chapter 15: Aspects of Language Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-French Bilingual Children - Mehmet Ali Akıncı and Nathalie Decool-Mercier

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