Language: Normal and pathological Development, livre ebook

VOLUME 16
This comprehensive monograph is dedicated to the late Dr. Elizabeth Bates of San Diego and Rome who built so many bridges between brain development and function in a variety of languages. It updates progress in understanding children’s language learning and its pathologies. It stresses the neurologic basis of normal language acquisition and the consequences of a variety of disorders using such tools as detailed analysis of language comprehension, production, and use, as well as functional brain imaging, and electrophysiology.
It also underlines the importance of subcortical circuitry and inner speech, and reviews the unfolding or regression of language in focal brain lesions, autism, Williams syndrome, and developmental disorders of oral and written language.
CONTENTS:
Normal language development:
Chapter 1 Language acquisition and neural development: the contribution
of Elisabeth Bates
Chapter 2 Phonological development: developmental profile and analysis procedures
Chapter 3 Early lexical development: individual risk and atypical processes
Chapter 4 Grammar development
Chapter 5 Pragmatics
Language and neurofunctional correlates:
Chapter 6 Auditory comprehension of language in young children
Chapter 7 The language production-comprehension network in functional imaging
Chapter 8 Developmental changes in human cerebral functional organization
for word generation
Chapter 9 Functional reorganization of language networks during development
Language in congenital and acquired brain lesions:
Chapter 10 The relationship between language and development in autistic spectrum disorders
Chapter 11 Language regression in autism: pathogenesis and differential diagnosis
Chapter 12 Language disorders in children with cerebellar pathology
Chapter 13 Aphasias in children: neuroanatomical correlations
Chapter 14 The relationship between developmental language disorders and behaviour disorders
Chapter 15 Language in children with Williams syndrome
Chapter 16 Disorders of verbal and non-verbal communication in children with bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria
Developmental language disorders (DLD):
Chapter 17 Specific language impairment: definition and diagnostic criteria
Chapter 18 Language delay in toddlers: differential diagnosis between specific and symptomatic disorders
Chapter 19 Phonological processes causing developmental language disorders (DLD): diagnostic possibilities
Chapter 20 Clinical characterization of Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
Chapter 21 Reading and writing skills in children with specific language impairment