Speech and Language Challenges - The Ultimate Teen Guide

Informationen zum Autor Marlene Targ Brill is an award-winning author of more than 70 books. She often writes about children and how they overcome great odds to follow their dreams. Klappentext This book will address the speech issues that affect all people, but specifically focus on the concerns of young adults-not just the how and whys of each issue, but how to cope with them. It will include teen interviews/stories, expert quotes, history of different conditions, definitions of technical terms necessary for understanding the conditions, media concerning speech problems (such as The King's Speech), and short biographies of well-known people who have dealt with and/or overcome these same issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Let's Talk Speech and Language1. The Amazing Story of Communication2. When Words Won't Flow: Stuttering and Other Fluency Challenges 3. Mixed-Up Sounds and Words: Speech Sound Disorders4. When the Voice Goes Haywire: Voice Disorders5. When the Brain Hears and Processes Information Differently: Language Disorders6. Cars, Guns, Sports, and the Unexpected: Brain Injury and Communication7. When English Sounds New or Different 8. Technology as a Communication Game Changer9. Looking Ahead: Boosting Communication Skills All AroundGlossaryIndexAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Marlene Targ Brill, Brill Marlene Targ
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2014
• EAN: 9780810887916
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-8791-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: It Happened to Me; It Happened to Me
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Play, learning > Learning; YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Health & Daily Living / General, Interest age: from c 13 years, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Disabilities