Topbas / Yavas Communication Disorders in Turkish

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84769-395-2
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Communication Disorders Across Languages

This volume is the first to deal with Turkish communicative development and disorders, reflecting the use of Turkish by a sizeable population in multilingual settings in Europe, USA, and Australia. In addition to Speech-language Pathologists, the book will be of interest to professionals from related fields such as clinical linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, audiology, and special education. This book presents a compendium of information about the profession of speech-language pathology, cultural differences, assessment materials and research done in communication disorders in Turkey. It also covers acquisition and disorders in multilingual contexts where there is significant Turkish immigration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Topbas, Seyhun

Yavas, Mehmet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Logopädie, Sprech- & Sprachstörungen & Therapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Logopädie, Sprachstörungen, Stimmtherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I Prologue

Chapter 1: A Closer Look at the Developing Profession of Speech and Language Pathology - Seyhun Topbas

Chapter 2: The Sound Inventory of Turkish: Consonants and Vowels - Handan Kopkalli-Yavuz

Chapter 3: Some Structural Characteristics of Turkish - Mehmet Yavas

PART II Communication Development and Disorders in Monolingual Settings

Chapter 4: Normal Language Development in Turkish - Ayhan Aksu-Koç

Chapter 5: MLU as a Tool for Morphological Assessment in Turkish Children - Pinar Ege

Chapter 6: Turkish SALT: Computer Assisted Language Sample Analysis - Funda Acarlar and Judith Johnston

Chapter 7: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish: Adapting the TELD-3 as a First Step in Measuring Language Impairments - Seyhun Topbas

Chapter 8: Speech Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children - Ümran Tüfekçioglu

Chapter 9: Language Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children - Ümran Tüfekçioglu

Chapter 10: Characteristics of Aphasia in Turkish - Ilknur Mavis

Chapter 11: Semantic Relatedness Judgments in Normal Turkish-English Bilinguals - Ilknur Mavis and Swathi Kiran

PART III Communication Disorders in Multilingual Settings

Chapter 12: Aspects of Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children - Kutlay Yagmur and Elma Nap-Koff

Chapter 13: Language Impairment in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children - Jan de Jong, Nazife Çavus and Anne Baker

Chapter 14: Measuring the Language Abilities of Turkish-English Bilingual Children Using TELD-3-T - Theodoros Marinis and Duygu Özge

Chapter 15: Aspects of Language Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-French Bilingual Children - Mehmet Ali Akinci and Nathalie Decool-Mercier

Chapter 16: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish-German Bilingual Children: Aspects of Assessment and Outcome - Solveig Chilla and Ezel Babür

Über Autor(innen)

Topbas, Seyhun
Seyhun Topbas is a Professor of Speech and Language Therapy at Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey. She is one of the pioneers of the Speech & Language Therapy profession in Turkey, and the founder of the first graduate and undergraduate programs in Speech Language Therapy in the country, Dr Topbas has developed standardized tests and has authored many articles and chapters in international and national journals. She has written and been the editor of three volumes in speech and language disorders as well as an international book published by Multilingual Matters titled Communication Disorders in Turkish (co-authored). She is a member of ASHA, CPLOL and a member of IALP, ICPLA, and on the editorial board of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. Currently, she is Head of the national Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Turkey.