Language and Literacy Connections

Language and Literacy Connections: Intervention for School-Age Children and Adolescents, Second Edition takes readers on a path of knowledge steeped in principles and practical applications. Integrating language learning and disorders and literacy together in a coherent and cohesive narrative, it covers the challenges facing school-age students from early elementary levels through high school. Using past and current research and interventions from speech-language pathology (SLP) and reading and literacy arenas, the authors present transcripts, cases, and detailed intervention sessions to provide a template for daily practice. The text raises questions relating to “why am I doing this?” and provides some answers to this most complex, yet basic, question.

The text has four major goals: (1) to encourage readers to evaluate past and current clinical and educational practices in language intervention at school-age levels; (2) to present intervention goals and activities that are theoretically-sound but may require further research scrutiny; (3) to explore aspects of curriculum-relevant language intervention for students with language learning disabilities; (4) to provide guidelines for school-based practitioners that clarify how professionals with diverse backgrounds and roles share responsibility in language, literacy, and academic programming. While taking a strong language/language disorders’ perspective, the text would be a useful resource for teachers and other specialists who share students with language learning disabilities (LLD) with their school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs).

New to the Second Edition
• A new chapter, “Application Activities to Stretch Your Knowledge,” includes problems with possible answers and rationales that review significant concepts in language and literacy with a focus on adolescents
• A roadmap to scenarios and reports and key information at the beginning of the text
• Application activities in Chapter 10 with icons that highlight easy access to key information and connections with understanding the “Whys”

Key Features
• Questions at the beginning of each chapter that reflect concerns of SLPs and their teams
• Projects and assignments that supplement and review the material
• Examples of teaching modules with practical lesson plans that integrate the role of SLPs in Interprofessional Practices (IPP) while explicitly addressing the curriculum across a variety of subject areas