Developmental Psychology Arena

On Reading Books to Children

Parents and Teachers

• Edited by Anne van Kleeck, Steven A. Stahl, Eurydice B. Bauer

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children. The authors, drawn from...

Published February 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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The New Psychology of Language

Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume II

• Edited by Michael Tomasello

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The...

Published November 1st 2002 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Language Competence Across Populations

Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment

• Edited by Yonata Levy, Jeannette C. Schaeffer

This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development. It presents an attempt...

Published November 1st 2002 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Talking to Adults

The Contribution of Multiparty Discourse to Language Acquisition

• Edited by Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Catherine E. Snow

This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's...

Published April 1st 2002 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Speaking, Reading, and Writing in Children With Language Learning Disabilities

New Paradigms in Research and Practice

• Edited by Katharine G. Butler, Elaine R. Silliman

The ability to use language in more literate ways has always been a central outcome of education. Today, however, "being literate" requires more than functional...

Published December 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Children's Language

Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence

• Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Children's Language

Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development

• Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Assessment of Language Disorders in Children

• By Rebecca J. McCauley

This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language...

Published November 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Nonverbal Perceptual and Cognitive Processes in Children With Language Disorders

Toward A New Framework for Clinical intervention

• By Walter Bischofberger, F‚licie Affolter, F‚licie Affolter

A growing body of literature is suggesting that many children with language disorders and delays--even those with so-called specific language impairment--have difficulties in other domains...

Published September 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Basic Processes in Early Second Language Reading

A Special Issue of scientific Studies of Reading

• Edited by Esther Geva, Ludo Verhoeven

The four articles in this issue represent recent developments in the study of basic processes in L2 reading at the primary level. The research reported...

Published September 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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