Communication Disorders in Turkish / / ed. by Seyhun Topbaş, Mehmet Yavaş.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Akıncı, Mehmet Ali,; Babur, Ezel,; Baker, Anne,; Chilla, Solveig,; Ege, Pınar,; Jong, Jan de,; Kiran, Swathi,; Kolhoff, Elma Nap-,; Koç, Ayhan Aksu-,; Marinis, Theodoros,; Maviş, Ilknur,; Mercier, Nathalie Decool-,; Topbas, Seyhun,; Tüfekçioglu, Umran,; Yagmur, Kutlay,; Yavas, Mehmet,; Yavuz, Handan Kopkalli-,; Çavus, Nazife,; Özge, Duygu,
• HerausgeberIn: Topbaş, Seyhun,; Yavaş, Mehmet,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Communication Disorders Across Languages
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions Used within this Book -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part 1: Prologue -- 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 -- Part 2: Communication Development and Disorders in Monolingual Settings -- 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 -- Part 3: Communication Disorders in Multilingual Settings -- 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