Background: Receptive language impairment (RLI) is one of the most significant indicators
of negative sequelae for children with speech and language disorders. Despite this …

This paper illustrates a psycholinguistic approach to investigating children's speech and
literacy difficulties by describing a “three-way” intervention plan for Jarrod, a 7 year old boy …

This is the third book in the series “Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties” and is based
on research and practice with school-age children with persisting speech and associated …

Background: The construction of therapy protocols for a large‐scale randomized controlled
trial comparing speech and language therapists and assistants, and group and individual …

Background: A manualized language therapy developed via a randomized controlled trial
had proved efficacious in the short-term in developing expressive language for mainstream …

A focus group of seven speech and language therapists (SLTs) who work with children with
phonological difficulties was invited to share their views on their current ways of working …

Children and young people with speech, language and communication needs raise
considerable challenges for professionals in terms of both the identification and nature of …

Studies indicate that language impairment that cannot be accounted for by factors such as
below‐average non‐verbal ability, hearing impairment, behaviour or emotional problems, or …

Carol Miller, a speech and language therapist in the School of Education at The University of
Birmingham, identifies the different perspectives of speech and language therapists and …

Although most children learn language relatively quickly, as many as 10 per cent of them are
slow to start speaking and are said to have developmental language disorder (DLD) …