Full Description
Introduction to Speech, Language, and Literacy is written for Australian and New Zealand students studying education, speech pathology and linguistics; fields with a strong focus on communication. The book provides readers with a theoretical understanding of speech, language and literacy acquisition, and the ability to apply this understanding to individuals of different ages and developmental stages, including those who are developing typically and those with speech, language and literacy difficulties. Within most chapters, Indigenous people and languages of Australia and New Zealand are included as well as people from other cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
The book uses a lifespan approach to consider communication skills from childhood, to adolescence and adulthood. Typical acquisition is described throughout the book and many chapters provide tables of typical milestones or developmental sequences. Readers are provided with descriptions of difficulties people may have acquiring speech, language and literacy skills and strategies are provided for educators, speech pathologists and linguists to support speech, language and literacy.
The inclusion of case studies is a key feature of this book, used to demonstrate the development and use of speech, language and literacy by different people in different contexts. The book comes with access to 10 video case studies. The videos are of Australian children, university students, and a retired teacher. These people have been videoed talking, playing, drawing, reading and writing. The people in the case studies are introduced in chapter 1 and the chapter authors draw on these videos to demonstrate features of speech, language, and literacy. In addition, authors draw on their professional practice to describe other cases that are illustrative of the chapter content and its real-world application.
Contents
Preface About the Editors ContributorsAcknowledgementsPart 1 Introduction Chapter 1: What is Speech, Language, and Literacy? Sharynne McLeod and Jane McCormack Chapter 2: Sociolinguistic Environments of Speech, Language, and Literacy Catherine Easton and Jane McCormackPart 2 Speech Chapter 3: Phonetics Felicity Cox and Sharynne McLeodChapter 4: Phonology Sarah Masso and Elise BakerPart 3 Language Chapter 5: Semantics Natalie Munro and Karla McGregorChapter 6: Morphology Katherine Demuth, Kelly Miles, Sithembinkosi Dube, and Ekaterina TomasChapter 7: Syntax Rosalind ThorntonChapter 8: Discourse and Pragmatics Alison Ferguson and Elizabeth SpencerPart 4 Literacy Chapter 9: Reading Sarah H. McDonaghChapter 10: Writing Noella M. Mackenzie and Janet ScullPart 5 Foundations for Speech, Language, and Literacy Chapter 11: Cognitive Basis for Speech, Language, and Literacy Karen Smith-Lock and Lyndsey NickelsChapter 12: Neurobiological Basis for Speech, Language, and Literacy Angela Morgan and Frederique J. LiegeoisPart 6 Speech, Language, and Literacy in Context Chapter 13: Interaction between Speech, Language, and Literacy Suze LeitaoAppendices: Video Transcripts Glossary Index
