Communication disorders in Turkish [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Seyhun Topbas and Mehmet Yavas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826854003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol, UK ; ; New York, : Multilingual Matters, 2010
• ISBN: 1-84769-395-4; 1-282-65709-7; 9786612657092; 1-84769-247-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (434 p.)
• Collana: Communication disorders across languages ; ; 4
• Altri autori (Persone): TopbaşSeyhun; YavasMehmet S
• Disciplina: 401/.9089943
• Soggetti: Language disorders; Turkish language
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions Used within this Book -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1: A Closer Look at the Developing Profession of Speech and Language Pathology (SLP) in Turkey -- Chapter 2: The Sound Inventory of Turkish: Consonants and Vowels -- Chapter 3 Some Structural Characteristics of Turkish -- Chapter 4: The Course of Normal Language Development in Turkish -- Chapter 5: Mean Length of Utterance as a Tool for Morphological Assessment in Turkish Children -- Chapter 6: Turkish SALT: Computer-Assisted Language Sample Analysis -- Chapter 7: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish: Adapting the Test of Early Language Development (TELD-3) as a First Step in Measuring Language Impairments -- Chapter 8: Speech Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children -- Chapter 9: Language Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children -- Chapter 10: Characteristics of Aphasia in Turkish -- Chapter 11: Semantic Relatedness Judgments in Normal Turkish-English Adult Bilinguals -- Chapter 12: Aspects of Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children -- Chapter 13: Language Impairment ; in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children -- Chapter 14: Measuring the Language Abilities of Turkish-English Bilingual Children Using TELD-3: Turkish -- Chapter 15: Aspects of Language Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-French Bilingual Children -- Chapter 16: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish-German Bilingual Children: Aspects of Assessment and Outcome -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.