Martin Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84769-161-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

This book offers a solution to the familiar dilemma of decoding communication difficulties for learners developing the language of schooling. The author takes a sociocultural Vygotskian approach to reinterpret international research in language disabilities, namely specific language impairment, communication difficulties, dyslexia and deafness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Deirdre

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Logopädie, Sprachstörungen, Stimmtherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HNO-Heilkunde, Phoniatrie, Audiologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1 A socio-cultural activity approach: key concepts Chapter 2 Provision for communication disabilities in CLD Chapter 3 Disability and disabling cultural and linguistic diversity Chapter 4 Bilingual speech and language development and difficulties Chapter 5 Literacy, literacies and difficulties with printed language Chapter 6 Deafness in culturally and linguistically diverse communities Chapter 7 Assessment approaches: comparison, product and process Chapter 8 Learning, teaching, and intervention Chapter 9 Collaboration as inter-professional learning Chapter10 Parents, families, and children working with professionals

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Deirdre:
Deirdre Martin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests include speech, language and literacy disabilities in multilingual contexts, research methods and the relationship between research and professional practice. Her publications include Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (2009, Multilingual Matters).Deirdre Martin is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK. She has extensive experience as an educator and researcher with children and families with language disabilities in multilingual societies. She was a speech and language therapist in the UK and Peru, co-founded the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ special interest group in bilingualism and has been a specialist professional advisor. She currently leads postgraduate programmes on language disability and dyslexia for professionals working in EAL, EFL and bilingual contexts. She has published and presented widely in the field of language development, disability and bilingualism.