Language disorders : a functional approach to assessment and intervention / Robert E. Owens Jr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-534) and indexes.

Introduction -- A functional language approach -- Language impairments -- Communication assessment -- Assessment of preschool and school-age children with language impairment -- Assessment of preschool and school-age children with language difference -- Language sampling -- Analysis across utterances and partners and by communication event -- Analyzing a language sample at the utterance level -- Narrative analysis -- Intervention -- A functional intervention model -- Manipulating context -- Specific intervention techniques -- Classroom functional intervention -- Literacy impairments: language in a visual mode -- Consideration for CLD children -- Language analysis methods -- Selected English morphological prefixes and suffixes -- Indirect elicitation techniques -- Intervention activities and language targets -- Use of children's literature in preschool classrooms.